A Night of Darkness
The sun rays hit the front display, making the ice cream inside gleam like fresh snow. A young teen sat on a chair ,waiting, for some sign of a customer. She was only 16 and nothing remotely interesting had happened to her today. She had light brown hair, green-blue eyes and was only about 5'6. The door creaked open and she looked up to see who it was, but it was not the kind of person she was expecting. He was wearing a deep purple suit, with a dark green tie, his hair was mangled and greasy with a definite green tint. On his face was white paint, with deep dark circles of black around his eyes and a disfigured red smile underneath she could see scars. He chuckled to himself in an odd sort of way.
"Well, well I see the selection but nothing I'm looking at appeals.." he said sending chills down her back. He slowly walked towards her, each step more threatening than the last. He looked down at her name tag, his disfigured smile spreading wider.
"Hm.. well Jessi, looks like your job is about to get a whole lot easier." he said walking closer giving her no room to escape. He pulled out a knife which clinked open and pointed it at Jessi.
"Now your gonna come with me, and it you try and leave. Well you can imagine what will happen."He chuckled, grabbing her arm and pulling her forward. At that moment the door opened and in walked Will. He was about 5'8 with medium length brown hair, light freckles, and deep intense gold eyes.
"What-who the heck are you?" he asked his eyes widening at the sight of the scarred man. But the man just laughed and, still clutching Jessi walked over to Will.
"Well it looks like you two are some kind of item.", the man said,"I wouldn't want to break you guys apart..Oh well!" and with that he punched Will in the face, watching him stagger and keel over unconscious. He then went into his pocket and pulled out a joker card placing it on his chest. Jessi, at the point of tears, tried to bend down to wipe the small trickle of blood coming from his mouth but the man wrenched her to her feet.
"Ah, ah no touching the crime scene."The man said and with that black van pulled up.
"Oh I forgot my manners, you can call me the Joker. Oh and heres our ride" he said shoving her to the car. They walked up to the dark van and the Joker pushed her to the back. There were three other men in the car, each with a dirty clown mask on. The windows were dark and tinted so it was nearly impossible to see out of. The Joker climbed into the back right where she was sitting.
"Alrightie boys, back to where we came from please." the Joker said putting his arm around Jessi's shoulder sending waves of anger and fear down her spine.
"Oh you look nervous, is it the scars?" he asked.
"Uh..no."she said her voice trembling. He peered over to her and a flash if sympathy or was it annoyance, whatever it was he shook it off and stared out the window.
"Well it's too bad your stuck with us." he said showing no emotion in his face. It seemed like they had been driving for hours, no one spoke, only the sound of the highway met they're ears. When they finally arrived at they're destination, Jessi was handcuffed and pushed forward into a deserted warehouse, catching a glimpse of a brightly lit city. The building was filled with barrels and international boxes all with a very ominous feel.
"Welcome to our humble circus my lucky guest."the Joker said spreading his arms out like he was displaying a trophy collection.
"Where am I?"she asked anger shaking in her voice.
"Ah you see that's not part of the plan."he said prodding her forward with his knife.
"Your our first hostage used mostly threatening and gaining large profits."
"Why me?" She asked.
"Why, well why not?"he laughed.
"Your sick."she said glaring at him. Anger flashed in face, he grabbed her by the collar of her shirt.
"I don't want to hear anything like that come from your mouth ever again!" he yelled in an almost inhuman voice. Jessi felt a wave of cold fear sweep over her as her knees trembled. And with that he turned around, nodded to another man with a mask who walked up to get her. Before she had a chance to run he hit her on the back of the neck and she fell into a pile on the floor.