I'm really running behind schedule on my study streak and since I love Vocaloid... Well, just consider this some random anime story from me. I cant say much now so...
WHATEVER! Anyway, hello again from Darkrai Master34! Vocaloid stories make me happy... So yeah! Dattebayo!
P.S: this is Dark Woods Circus. It ain't pretty so don't be all "this is too scary!". It's supposed to be scary!
_~~~~~~~~}-_MEH
A young red-headed child with beautiful chocolate brown eyes walked through the streets, looking for something to do. She was always bored, not even her beloved nii-san Zaito and her onee-chan Zatsune were at home. They were busy patrolling. They were warriors anyway.
"I wish a circus would come to town." The little girl thought.
"Do you like circuses?"
The little girl paused, having let go of her fears a long time ago due to having a nii-san and onee-chan as warriors, before turning around to see who it was. And despite her unusual bravery at her age, she nearly screamed at the sight of where the voice came from.
They were two people, who appeared to be standing very close to each other, but were not. They seemed to be twins with the same blond hair and big blue eyes, one boy who appeared to be a bit taller and older had his hair up in a small ponytail and girl who was most likely the younger twin had a rabbit bow on her head with them holding a bunch of flyers... And they were crudely sewn together. They also shared a multi-colored clown suit so what kid wouldn't scream?
They had a colorful and maybe a grayish ,or maybe blackish, array of tattoos on their faces and the female twin had and wide ear-to-ear grin on her face. The boy, however, kept a somber and slightly sorrowful expression on his young fourteen year-old face with his sad gaze kept low, a forced half-smile playing weakly on his lips.
"Do you like circuses?" The girl of the two heads on the one body asked again, holding out a flyer, her smile a perhaps a bit insane.
The little red-head's interest peaked. Maybe her nii-san and onee-chan wouldn't mind a bit? They knew she loved circuses so they'd know. She gingerly took a flyer and peeked at it. It said, "Dark Woods Circus: Come Now! It's very fun!" With a drawing of a circus tent at the bottom.
"Circus? Where?" The child asked curiously, peeking around the creepy twins hoping to see the tip of a tent peeking out from the horizon.
"Come with us." The twins said in unison, holding out their shared hands, with the boy perhaps looking a lot less enthusiastic than his sister, who was now grinning maniacally. The girl took the hand of the boy, feeling better with him than his unnaturally happy sister.
"Okay, but I have to be quick. My nii-san and onee-chan might get mad at me..." The little girl said hesitantly, thinking of her slightly panicky sister and rationally calm brother.
A hint of true and happy smile appeared on the boy's face. But before the tiny red-head could read his expression, the boy said something about "We'll make it quick then" and then the twins whisked her away to quite well-worn path in the woods.
As light began to shine through the trees, the boy let go of her hand and the twins vanished through the brush. The girl was left alone on the path. The little girl walked on, knowing that the circus was near, and then came upon a huge tent with the letters, "The Dark Woods Circus" stamped in black bold letters at the top.
She stared at the tent in awe, holding the pendant her nii-san made and gave her for her sixth birthday. Her onee-chan said if she pushed that small button at the bottom, they'd come immediately. Of course since her brother was nothing short of a mechanical genius aside from being a combat expert. But she kept staring at the tent, thinking that nothing was wrong and that nothing else would shock her until the beings much taller than the trees stepped out.
Two people, at least ten meters tall, were dressed in formal clothes. They were both female with one having long white hair and red eyes with her hair pulled into one long, side head ponytail and the other with long blond hair similar to the twins pulled into pigtails with green ribbons and warm brown eyes. She had hair like her sister's, but her onee-chan's hair was much messier and it was a midnight black.
But despite being both female, the giant with white hair wore a form-fitting dark pinstriped suit with a fancy top hat in contrast to the beautiful green dress her brown-eyed blond companion whirled and twirled in.
With careful steps as to not crush the tent, the two giants danced gracefully around the tent, despite the note the girl made on the chains on their ankles that were connected to the tent.
While the child's eyes were focused on the dancing giants, with the blond haired one looking down slightly and smiling sadly at her, she heard a familiar voice coming from the undergrowth.
"Go in!" The male twin's voice echoed eerily from the trees, "Enter the circus!" The boy urged on.
"Come on now," It was the female twin now, "Aren't your brother and sister waiting for you back home?"
The girl hesitated a bit, her beloved and revered older brother and sister? Yes, maybe just a few minutes in the circus aren't so bad. She had her nii-san's pendant after all. Tearing her eyes away from the giants who looked down sadly at her, she began an innocent and happy skipping run into the tent.
-._~~_
Both the giants, Yowane Haku and Akita Neru, looked sadly after the young red-headed girl as she skipped off into the tent. The blond one, Neru, looked sadly at her snow haired companion.
"She's new, isn't she Haku?" Neru asked, her boyish voice echoing through the forest.
Haku sighed, "Yeah. Looks like Rin and Len hit the bulls-eye today..." She said, looking at the tent mournfully.
"Hm-hm... Ughhh... Why can't it be me who wears the suit? I hate this dress..." Neru muttered, pulling at the folds of her gigantic dress. Haku giggled a bit at her tomboyish friend.
"Well Neru-" Haku started before getting cut off by a familiar voice.
"Hi Neru and Haku!" a cheery voice called out. The two giants groaned softly. They never liked Rin. Although they quite fond of her twin brother.
"Nice evening huh?" Len said shyly and good-naturedly.
"Hi Len! And Rin." Neru said, waving at the artificially conjoined twins. Haku winced at the crude and messy stitches on their bodies, this was pain two fourteen year-old children should have never experienced.
"Listen Haku, Neru, me and Len have to perform now, think you can look after the other boys and girls for me, hmm?" Rin said, glancing at Haku's face while grinning insanely with her brother resisting the urge to facepalm.
Neru fiddled with the ruffles on her dress nervously. Why would anyone try to escape? Rin was far too scary and weird for them, why would anyone even try?
"Yes... Of course Rin." Haku murmured.
Rin smiled her crazy smile. "Thanks you guys!" She chirruped and walked into the back flap of the tent for the performance with Len giving them a last minute wave.
After Rin disappeared into the red fabric of the tent, Haku and Neru sighed. "She's freaking scary..." Neru muttered, pulling on her dress ruffles.
"Tell me about it... And these chains are getting cold, when can we come in?" Haku complained, pulling on the cold silver chains on her ankle. Neru shook her head, "No, the Red Master said until midnight. As much as I hate the cold, we have to. Aside from Rin, we're the only ones with no acid marks on our faces," Neru sighed, "I'd rather get frostbite than my face getting permanently and painfully scarred. Plus, we aren't supposed to get scars. We're displayed on the outside so we can't look like monsters..." Neru finished sadly.
Haku sighed also, "I feel really sorry for Miku-chan..."
Neru nodded, "Yes... I really do hope the new redhead would be kind."
-/-/_\_~~meh
As soon as the little redhead reached the inside of the circus, the inside seemed to light up with every color of the rainbow. The little girl gaped at all the brightness around her and instinctively grasped her pendant. As she did, the gold plating of name on her lucky charm shone, Meiko.
The little child, who we shall call Meiko now, shook with excitement and immediately took a seat in the first row and let go of her pendant, slipping it into her white shirt, eagerly grasping the edge of her bright red jacket that her onee-chan sewed for her.
Finally, the lights dimmed and a single spotlight shone on the sand-covered clearing (like in circuses), and from a cloud of white mist that suddenly burst in the center, a man, presumed by Meiko to be the ringmaster, appeared.
He was pale, incredibly pale. Pale enough to be mistaken as a walking corpse. He had dark brown hair, almost black, and charcoal black eyes.
As another spotlight joined the first, Meiko could see that the ringmaster's skin looked quite solid... And dusty. That's when Meiko, with her trained eye thanks to her siblings, found out the man seemed to have chalk as his skin. Chalk.
The ringmaster coughed once, twice, then exploded into a deep voice;
"Oh you're here!
The Dark Woods Circus.
Tonight we'll be showing,
the sad fate that some of this world carry.
Children that God abandoned, restlessly creeping out.
Children who can't even carry the trembling limbs they were born with.
Their shaking tongues even accidentally cry out,
the crowns of their heads that caress the dark clouds.
They smile as they dream of their mother's embrace.
Ooh,
the deformity!
DEFORMITY!
Deformity? Meiko suddenly leaned back into her seat. When her Zatsune onee-chan took her out once on a patrol, just to make her happy and stroll her formerly 4 year-old sister, a bandit attacked them. He didn't get far however, as her onee-chan whipped out her twin blades and slashed at the poor thief's face, totally disfiguring him. Of course, Zatsune muttered something about deformity and called for her Zaito nii-san to take Meiko home.
Suddenly fearful as the memory of the young thief's deformed, slashed face flashed into her mind, a small, childish smile lit up her face as she saw the same twins she saw a while ago hop into a separate spotlight. The male twin, she observed, had rare true smile on his face upon locking eyes with Meiko. Meiko giggled and waved and the boy waved back.
"Presenting Len and Rin Kagamine, The One With Two Heads!" The chalky ringmaster announced. At his voice, the artificially conjoined twins immediately jumped and began performing graceful acrobatics despite their obvious disability. Meiko grinned and clapped, laughing loudly. The boy grinned back and bowed with his sister.
Suddenly the twins disappeared in a burst of white smoke, and then a beautiful and haunting singing filled the tent. It was loud, beautiful, remote and sorrowful. It seemed to be sang by a woman, as she sang about her sadness, pain, deformity and her hatred for her own life.
"Hatsune Miku! The Deformed Diva!" The ringmaster said, not as loud as before. He also seemed teary-eyed.
The singing of the girl brought tears to Meiko's eyes and then caught sight of the twins. The girl still wore the same maniacal expression while the boy's earlier happiness was now erased by a deeper sorrow. Like grief. His head was bent, surprisingly clean tears seeping out of his bright blue irises and he shook while he sobbed, singing along softly for this diva.
Meiko was surprised by the clarity and beauty of the male twin's voice. Totally awestruck, she was suddenly gripped by an urge to comfort the boy.
"His voice is beautiful too..." Meiko thought. The twins were near her seat, so she could easily reach out a hand and perhaps console the weeping boy.
And as she reached out her hand to place on his shoulder, her hand had barely brushed his blond ponytail when she felt someone grab her wrist. Alarmed, Meiko turned around to see a figure burst out of a hidden compartment. Immediately turning back to the twins, she tried to ask them for help, but the girl's face was still grinning and the boy was still sobbing, singing softly and his blue eyes filled with remorse. Yet, the boy managed to whisper, "I'm sorry."
And as Meiko was dragged away and a club hit on her head to knock her out, Meiko thought about her beloved nii-san and onee-chan. Also the blond, blue-eyed boy.
"I'm so sorry Zaito nii-san... Zatsune onee-chan... And it's alright sir, you with the blond hair... I forgive you..." Meiko thought numbly as the darkness swallowed her.
Trivia:
Both Zaito and Zatsune Miku are the negative counterparts of Kaito and Hatsune Miku. Being warriors, expect a rescue mission in the later chapters... If Meiko wants to be rescued.
Note: nii-san- Older bro
onee-chan- Older sis
Sorry Rin fans! Don't worry, Rin isn't who she seems.
Darkrai Master34, signing off.