Disclaimer: I do not own Vocaloid.

Rating: Rated T for violence, death, horror, and suspense.

Part 1: The Nightmare Circus

Gumi

"I'm heading off, Flower!" I yelled as I began to exit the Vocaloid café where I worked.

"Bye, Gumi!"

"Good luck with the next shift!"

"There is no one who comes at 3 am, Gumi!"

I laughed and waved. "Love ya, sis!"

Flower (who was not my sister) sighed in defeat and waved. "See you tomorrow."

I blew the hair from my face as I exited and waved towards to Luka, my roommate. She pulled up in her car and stopped the car in front of the café. I walked to the passenger side and slid in, buckling my seatbelt as I did so.

"How was work?" Luka asked as she pulled out of the parking lot and began driving on the highway.

"It was fine, I guess. I mean, there weren't any people who came. It was basically Flower and myself cleaning and hanging out."

"Sounds fun," Luka replied.

"It was. She didn't like how I messed with her mind, but she insisted on me using my stage voice to call out orders."

Luka smirked. "So you made someone deaf?"

"No one went deaf! They merely rubbed their ears when I yelled."

The way home was blocked. Frowning, Luka backed up and turned left, heading down a seldom used road to see if we can head home.

After several tense minutes, Luka turned right and smiled. "I'm just teasing, Gumi."

I quirked an eyebrow and faced forward. "Really? I'm not sure that-"

I stopped speaking as a sign appeared in the road. "LUKA! LOOK OUT!"

Luka attempted to swerve her car, but the road was slick, causing her to veer off the road. I screamed as the car shook as it fell into the ditch, stopping after a few seconds.

Luka shook slightly after the car had gotten stuck. "What happened?"

"I don't know," I muttered as I unbuckled my seatbelt. "But I'm going to find out." I attempted to open the door, but it was locked. Luka unlocked the door, and I managed to open it. I carefully got out of the car, and hiked up to the road. As I got within view of the sign, I stopped.

The sign was gone, and the road wasn't slick. It was as if the sign never existed and we had randomly driven off the road. I knew that we didn't hit it, but for it to disappear like that along with the water...

"The sign's gone," I told Luka.

Luka dashed to my side. "No way."

I nodded, but I doubted that Luka could see me in the dark.

Luka growled. "So I went off the road for nothing? That's great."

I sighed. "Let's head back to the car. We can call someone and hope that they come by to pick us up."

"Sounds like a plan."

We turned around and froze. Luka's car was gone.

"Did someone steal my car?" Luka demanded.

I shook my head. "That's not possible. We would have heard something, and for it to disappear..."

"What now?"

I pulled my phone out of my pocket. "I'm calling my brother." I dialed Gumiya and held the phone up to my ear. Voicemail. Sighing, I began to talk. "Hey Gumiya. It's me, Gumi. Luka's car broke down, and we can't get home. Can you come get us? We're on Night Highway. Thanks bro."

As I pulled the phone away from my ear, I froze. This wasn't possible.

There was no record that I called my brother. It was as if I never opened up the call app, as it showed that the last person I had called was Luka.

"Damnit," I cursed. "I just called him..." As I moved to dial him again, my phone froze. After several tense seconds, my phone shut down, effectively leaving me without a way to contact my brother.

"Are you serious?" I screamed as I stomped my feet on the ground. "My phone had 75% battery!"

"You're not the only one," Luka muttered darkly. "My phone also shut off, and it had 50% battery."

"What now?" I fumed. "We don't have a car, our phones are off, and it's dark. Oh, and did I mention that we are in the middle of nowhere?"

"Calm down Gumi," Luka gently touched my shoulder. "We'll figure something out."

I looked at her. "Ok."

Luka shook me slightly after another minute or so. "Look! Over there!"

"Where? It's da- That light wasn't there before, correct?"

Luka laughed. "Finally! Let's go!" She grabbed my hand and she began running. I followed suit, glad that we were getting closer to help. As we got closer, the light was actually a multitude of lights. It took me a while to realize what it was.

"A circus?" I asked in disbelief. "What's a circus doing near Vocal City?"

Luka shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe they haven't announced it yet."

I shrugged. "Oh well. Maybe they'll have a phone for us to use."

We approached the circus. The multitude of tents surprised me. There were about a hundred of them scattered over the field. The colors ranged from black to yellow polka dots on a red canvas. The biggest tent was a deep green, and the smallest was all of the colors of the rainbow splashed on.

"This is a weird circus," Luka muttered.

"Yeah..."

I approached a nearby tent, but it was closed. Frowning, I looked around until I found an open tent.

"That one is open," I told Luka.

Luka backed away. "Gumi... That's the freak show tent."

"It'll be fine," I explained. "Maybe they're people who can do freaky stuff with their body."

"If you say so..."

We entered the tent and froze. Inside were a bunch of cages, ranging from 4 feet to 10 feet. The bars showed people curled up, unwilling to move. The two closest to us were labeled "Vampire" and "Pixie." I approached the vampire's cage. Inside was a boy of 17. His hair was blonde and was cut in different lengths. The only things covering his shivering body was a black t-shirt and a pair of grey jeans. The pixie nearby faired no better. Her blue hair was matted, and her dress looked dirty. She was rather small compared to the vampire, and had wings attached to her back. My heart ached seeing this. Why were they here? They weren't freaks.

"This is so cruel," Luka muttered as she peered into another cage containing a man with stitches all over his body. "They're being treated like animals."

"Should we free them?" I asked.

The "vampire" boy twitched, and suddenly bolted up. He shrank away from me, and his ruby eyes were filled with fear. I tried to reach him, but he cowered in fright.

"Please," he whispered. "Don't hurt me."

My heart broke. "I'm not going to hurt you." I reached into my pocket and pulled out a sugar cookie that I bought from work. "Here."

Tentatively, the boy reached out a shaking hand. He grasped the cookie and brought it to him. After taking a bite, he smiled.

"Thank you. No one has ever been kind to me."

I smiled at this. He looked really cute when he relaxed. "You're welcome."

He broke the cookie in half and handed it to the pixie, who woke up and began to nibble it. The boy then turned to me. "What's your name?"

"Gumi. What's yours?"

"Yohio. The girl in the next cage is Aoki Lapis," he whispered. After a few seconds, he asked, "What do you think of your visit to the Circus so far, Gumi? Is it fun?"

I frowned. "I'm not visiting. My roommate Luka and I are here to ask for help. We were driving home late from work when our car-"

Aoki jerked up as Yohio stared at me in horror. "Leave," she muttered.

"What?" I asked. "I'm just-"

"You have to leave," Yohio whispered in a hoarse voice. "Leave now if you don't want your souls to be damned."

I slowly got up. "Why?"

"This is hell incarnate," Aoki whispered. "All who enter at night the Nightmare Circus either die or their souls are damned for all eternity. Gumi, you have to leave before the nightmares arrive!"

I gulped. "Nightmares?"

Yohio nodded. "Monsters known to have driven people insane. Run!"

I nodded shakily and ran to Luka, grabbing her and dashing out of the tent, leaving Yohio and Aoki behind in their prisons.

"Did you hear that?" I asked Luka as we approached the way we entered.

She gulped. "Yes."

Before we could leave, a gate suddenly appeared. Barbed wire encased the exit as a fence slowly crept out of the ground.

"What the..?" I asked in pure disbelief. There is no way that a barbed wire fence could appear out of nowhere. It defied all logic and reason.

Luka began to back away, her voice cracking with fear. "What's happening?"

Before I could formulate what we could do, I heard an ungodly growl to my left.

Author's Note: Part Two will be uploaded at a later time. More Vocaloids will be added next time.

Ace