/N: I got the name from the song Circus for a Psycho by Skillet.

"What kind of people puts on a circus performance in the middle of the apocalypse?" Warren asked, looking at the black and white circus tent. It was in the middle of an abandoned amusement park.

10K noticed a red flier, took it off the chain-link fence and looked at it. "For one night only," he read. "Don't miss our grand finale."

Murphy looked over 10K's shoulder, "Who's going to show up?"

10K was a little surprised at the fact that Murphy bothered to get close to him while holding Lucy. "How the heck do I pronounce that name?"

Addy looked at it, "Com-completa…I think that's Spanish."

Vasquez looked at the name, "It says Full Moon's Circus."

"We should get out of here before they gang up on us and drag us to their little circus," Doc stated.

"Yeah, looking at that tent is making my skin crawl," Warren said.

10K looked at flier, "I think I heard about this circus."

Vasquez was a little surprised, "Really?"

"I think it was a newspaper. Said something about how the grand finale usually ends up with…" 10K paused looked at the others. "We should get out of here."

"Why? What's the grand finale?" Doc asked.

"It ends with someone getting chopped in half by a swinging blade. People thought it was just part of the show, but a few months later, it turned out that the dummies were actual human beings," 10K explained.

"That's…" Warren started. "Let's get out of here, before one of us ends up chopped in half."

"Yeah," Murphy said and 10K folded the flier to put it in his pocket.

A few blocks down the road, the vehicle they were using, sputtered and died on the spot.

"I don't like this," Murphy said. "I think it has something to do with that freak show of a circus. One of their performers probably sabotaged it."

Warren looked at them, "Addy and 10K, I want you two to go looking for a different car. Doc and Vasquez, you two can go look in the different direction for one. I'll see what happened to this car." Cassandra and Murphy hung in the back. Murphy to look over Lucy and Cassandra was just crouching there.

Warren looked under the hood and looked around. There didn't seem to be anything wrong, as far as she can see.

Addy and 10K walked down an alley. It was too quiet, way too quiet. Addy didn't like it. There were no Zs rushing at them and there were no cars in sight. There was a bunch of Full Moon Circus fliers on the fences and there was graffiti above a dumpster.

She touched 10K's arm and pointed at the graffiti.

He looked at it and snickered, "Really? The Smurfs?"

"I know," Addy said.

"That one sure beats The Blue Shirts that used to hang out in the park before the apocalypse," 10K replied.

Addy arched an eyebrow, "Really?"

10K nodded, "Yeah and then there were the Los Locos."

Addy winced, "Those are bad. Not as bad as the Smurfs."

"Well, considering that they got high and were in high school too. You're bound to give your gang a stupid name," 10K said.

A few minutes later, something seemed to weigh down on them. The calmness of the town was making him feel a little sick and it wasn't the Anthrax coming back either; judging by Addy not looking sick.

"I don't like this," Addy said.

"What do you mean?" 10K asked and looked behind them. Nothing was there and he looked forward. He looked behind him again and then looked at Addy.

"Something seems off," Addy said. "Do you know what I mean?"

"Yeah," 10K replied. "Where is everybody and where are the Zs?"

"I know," Addy said.

10K had a feeling that it had to do with the Full Moon's Circus and took out the flier. He looked at it and there were names, in small black print. One name stuck out to him to the most.

Esmeralda St. Crow

"Oh my god," he said.

"What?" Addy asked, looking at the flier.

"I know this woman," 10K said. He pointed to the name. His stomach seemed to be an impression of an ocean wave again.

"You do? Is she nice?" Addy asked. She noticed how 10K was looking a little sick and something told her that she wasn't nice.

"She's…" he started and someone's foot scrapped on the ground in front of the alley. He put the flier in his pocket. Addy held up her bat and 10K got his weapon ready.

Someone's foot scrapped behind them and 10K looked back. Where the Zs waiting for the right moment to ambush them?

The person's foot scrapped again, this time from both ends.

"I get one end and you get the other?" 10K offered.

Addy nodded, "Fine by me." They turned away from each other and went separate ways. They looked down the road, no one was there. Something caught 10K's attention and a cloth found its way in his mouth, while someone pulled him backwards.

Meanwhile:

Addy noticed a shadow and someone held a cloth over her mouth. She struggled, but the person was too strong.

She elbowed someone and the cloth pulled back. She needed to get to 10K and looked to see what was going on. One man was holding him back with a cloth over his face as another man held him.

She elbowed the person holding her again and another person rushed at her. She had dropped her Z-Whacker when the person chloroformed her and the person pushed her back into the person behind her.

The cloth was pushed over her face and someone held her arms. She kicked out, but didn't connect.

Her vision turned hazy, then gray, and then she blacked out.

Addy woke up in the alley and something was in her mouth. She took out a crumpled paper and looked at it. She unfolded it and noticed a flier for the Full Moon's Circus. She noticed a trail of fliers, held down by rocks.

Something didn't feel right and she got up. Her bat was leaning against the fence and she stood up. She grabbed it and ran down the alley. The fliers turned left and continued down the block, like a trail.

"Damn it," She said. Of course they would take 10K, he knew this Esmeralda chick. Was she a friend, relative, neighbor, friend's relative, a friend's neighbor, or was she a creepy weirdo that held affection for him?

She rushed over to where Warren was.

Vasquez and Doc already came back, without a car.

Warren looked at her, "Where's 10K?"

"It was an ambush," Addy explained. "We tried to fight them, but we got chloroformed. This was left in my mouth. I think they really want us to go to the circus."

"If it means that 10K is there, we'll go get him," Warren said.

Addy noticed that Cassandra was giving her a…hungry or dirty look.

"I think he's going to be part of the grand finale," Doc said, looking worried about the kid.

"You know, cut in half," Vasquez said.

"Should be interesting to see," Murphy muttered and the others gave him a dirty look.

"We're not going to let him get cut in half. Murphy stay behind with Lucy. Let's go rescue him," Warren ordered. She wasn't sure if Murphy will leave, or if he will listen and stay put. She decided to go with the latter.

They started their trek back to the abandoned amusement park where the circus was at.

A/N: This was the best that I could do for this chapter. I hope that I did it justice.

I got the Smurfs, Blue Shirts, and Los Locos from the gangs that hangs out in the park behind the middle school.