Circo de la Luna

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"So... what's the story Peachy?" The fire breather asked as he sat around the wooden table in the half-Lucario's private trailer with four other performers. "Why did the ringmaster stop the show today? What did Sheik do this time?"

"Oh yeah, blame me straight away Roy, you flippin idiot," the knife-thrower commented rolling her blood red eyes, "and completely forget that Samus is more likely to get away with a prank when I'm not."

"Stop lying. We all know its you," the red head retorted.

"Hey... not saying anything. Just letting you guys know that it could possibly be her. You must be multi-talented Roy. You can talk and piss me off at the same time."

"Thanks... HEY!" The group shared a laugh at the red head's expense. Yep, this freakish carnival family was so definitely a good one; taking advantage of your demise at every single moment they could spare.

"Where is Samus anyway?" The blue haired clown asked, rubbing his makeup off onto a soft purple cloth.

"It's her turn with Pit today. We got to revive the race somehow," Sheik stated nonchalantly. Roy smirked as he saw Marth's visible, natural patches of skin flushed a hot red while the diva, Peach, began laughing quietly and patting the sane clown on the back, sympathetically. "He briefly mentioned that last night; when he was with me."

"Figures. I think you're the most active with him when you're not playing with master," said the two headed jester from the shadows, laughing in their usual creepy unison. "Then again, you spend a lot of time with the lion too..." The red-head raised an eyebrow as Sheik stuck up her middle finger.

The jester began to explain to its somewhat captivated audience. Each one doing their usual trick of finishing the other's sentences.

"It seems that every time we don't perform a show-" Popo started.

"Master throws a hissy fit-" Nana continued.

"And then people need to find a method to relax-"

"So they return to their trailers-"

"And then this circus becomes one giant orgasm," the two said together laughing. Roy looked at the two, a puzzled expression on his face.

"What's an orgasm?"

"What is this, Nana?" Popo asked the other head mockingly, "Roy doesn't know what an orgasm is?"

"Oh joy Popo, we get to corrupt another innocent soul! It's been so long since we last did someone."

"Indeed sister. Who shall do this? You or I?"

"No one will be corrupting Roy's... or Marth's innocence," the lucario woman said, shooting a hard, stonic look at the two. Roy smirked as he saw the clown's relieved expression plastered on his face. Immediately, the duo was silent and, when the blonde was sure they wouldn't start again, she sat down and took out a deck of cards. "I have seen in the future and I know that you shall soon find out what is happening, but my future sight abilities are limited. To see further and how we will fair, I will have to use the cards."

"Ten bucks says we're screwed," Sheik stated, coughing out a laugh from the others. However, the widow didn't say anything as she closed her eyes and shuffled the deck, letting her weak aura powers tap into the universe before stopping suddenly and flipping three cards face up on top of the small table.

Even Roy could tell that each card was for the past, present and future but he didn't say a word. The whole room was silent as the strawberry-blonde looked at the first card and frowned.

"Arcana 0: The Fool. It's upside down so someone here has been taking ill advised risks, impulsive action, and rash decisions."

"Don't need to tell us that. Sheik, get out of here. You're messing up Mrs. M's readings!" Roy laughed again. The dirty-blonde woman growled and hit the fire-thrower on the back of his head. No matter how much Sheik hurt him, she was still his friend, so Roy wasn't upset when he got up and watched the fortune-telling diva attentively as she looked again at her next card. A small smile appeared on her face as she told the card's meaning.

"Arcana 1: The Magician. It's right side up, so I see mastery of the material world, creative action and a willingness to take risks. I can also see the abilities to recognise one's own potential, the power to initiate, communication and wit."

"That's deep and so true..."

"You're right Popo. It is."

"How deep is Link's belly Nana? How much can it hold? Is it true it can hold a whole man?"

"I'm not sure. Marth could help us right?" Both heads of the clown gave a Cheshire Cat smile to the innocent clown who smiled nervously back. Roy shoved the duo with his foot and pointed to Peach. Her frown had appeared and deepened and a wave on unease passed them all as she revealed the last card.

"Arcana 13: Death. It's upside down so... expect change that is both painful and unpleasant in the future." Everyone grimaced. As far as they knew, ever since the diva had been operated on, her fortune-telling abilities had never failed her yet. So when she said 'painful and unpleasant,' they knew hell was coming for them.

"Oh feck. How long to we have until..." Sheik managed to cuss out before they all heard a loud megaphone roar from the main circus tent.

"ALL MEMBERS TO LINK'S CAGE NOW! OR WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER CAPTAIN FALCON INCIDENT!"

Cards were dropped, chairs were knocked over as the group scrambled to their feet and burst through the door of Peach's caravan. With Sheik far ahead in the lead and Peach gathering the stragglers behind, the group made it quickly through the night towards the brightly lit tent. The red one of course, the black one was only specially for performances. The ringmaster said that and even Roy knew that Master Ike was always strict about his only rule: Whatever he said, goes without question.

"Samus!" Nana yelled with glee.

"Pit!" Popo followed.

"Glad you could join us. Did you two have fun?" As the twins said this together, the others looked at their friends coming up to them. For a second, the pyro didn't recognise Samus with her long hair down but seeing the annoyed look that her face possessed, he knew it was her. Pit looked almost as disheveled; part of his white circus outfit slipping off his shoulder and his pants were on backwards. The group withheld the laugh that they wanted to give the messy two. Right now their main problems lay with the dreaded ringmaster of the Circo de la Luna.

"Oh my Yune..." Marth said, putting a hand over his mouth and almost vomiting. One by one, the group followed the clown's lead and needless to say they were all pretty horrified. While Peach was the only one who remained calm and Marth continued doing what he did, Roy joined the other four's scared expression. They were all smiling but each one was fake and their wide eyes were stiff with fear.

"I bet most of the cat owners here know that cats tend to bring... 'presents' to their owners. Like mice they've hunted and stuff like that... but if your cat is as murderous as my Link, some problems may occur." the red hatted ringmaster murmured to himself as he looked at the furred teenager, unaware of the rest of his crew's entrance.

"Uhh... master?" Ike turned around and Roy immediately was silent. The ex-mercenary's cold glare swept them all and he growled, startling them. The group were ready for Ike's worst verbal assault when...

"Meow!" the blue haired ringmaster's attention fell back on the green capped lion-boy. Link looked proud of himself, he used his left hand to tug on Ike's clean pants-leaving a smear of blood- while he mewed in a tone of love and affection. Roy could hear, from Peach mostly, the fighting back of giggles while Link sat on the ground with his tail wagging. The only reason why the others weren't rolling on the floor was because of the thing in the half human's mouth: a white glove with a blue ripped off hand still inside it with a trail of blood coming from the entrance to- where it could be presumed- the main circus tent.

"Who the hell gave Link catnip AGAIN?" Ike roared abruptly as he pointed to the innocent looking lion-man creature.

No one answered him.

The man's brow crinkled and he brought his whip down in front of the group. Everyone gave a yell and moved back.

"S- shouldn't we think whose hand that is instead?" Samus spoke up meekly, Marth and Pit cowering behind her.

"I don't give a f*** whose hand it is. I want to know who I can blame for this. Today's show was one number short and now I have blood on my outfit. Not to mention I'll have to wash up Link later and I bet you know how troublesome that will be..."

The group nodded as Ike paced around them and looked at them, as if looking for someone to crack. No one dared to make eye contact with him. They just stared at Link who had dropped the hand and began tossing it from his two human hands, occasionally his lion claws scratching the surface. It was obvious it was a fresh kill seeing that blood still spurted out.

Roy wanted to move, run or look away but he knew he couldn't move as the ringmaster circled them like a vulture. Link had moved on to chewing on the hand. He could almost hear his two best friends loosing their stomachs. It made the fire-breather feel a bit queasy too. Like he was going to hurl...

"Uggh. You're all clear. But if you lot try this... stunt again. If I ever catch you, especially you Sheik, I will personally cut and shred you until you look like strips of bacon before using you as a chew toy for Link. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir!"

"Now get out of my sight. Link needs a bath. Tomorrow I want a performance so good that it's going to make up for the one we missed today."

"Yes sir..."

"What are you still doing here? Get out of my sight!" yelled the ringmaster. The crew members squeaked and nodded before they all ran off as fast as their legs could carry them.

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"Hey Marth?"

"What's up Samus? I thought you were going to spend the rest of the night with Pit."

"Shiny kind of ruined the mood."

"Yeah... I guess what he said would put a damper. He was scary."

"Damn straight he was. Hey Marth..."

"What? Oh no... if you're doing what I think you're going to do with that video camera; then leave me out of this."

"The twins stole it for me. Shiny doesn't know I have it. Come on Marth... for me?"

"We could get in trouble. Oh Yune... not the chibi puppy face. Fine! I'll do it."


"Come on Link. Get the meat you useless beast." The blue haired man said as he showed the wiggling thing in his hands. The teenager on all fours gave a small sniff of the creature in the ringmaster's hand before he ripped the meat and began gnawing on its neck, killing it, purring- due to the catnip- as he did so.

Ike tutted in disgust as he led the creature towards the second largest caravan on the circus grounds. When he took the circus from old Mario, he had questioned why the old ringmaster had created a caravan that had a working, in-built shower system. At the time, he thought that Mario was being his usual crazy self but now, Ike knew that he was just thinking ahead of his time as usual. Where else could his circle of followers go clean themselves off? Not only were they constantly traveling, but the Ice Jester as well as Lady Peach could hardly go to a public bathroom when they arrived in towns.

"That's right Link... eat it all up," the ringmaster muttered as he led the blonde over to the van. He kicked open the door and led the cat-nip induced teen inside the white tiled room. There wasn't much to look at, there was just a toilet, a sink, a cabinet and a large grey tub.

The blue haired man picked up a yellow rubber duck that was sitting on the sink and threw it into the tub, the duck giving a loud 'squeak' as it made impact. Link looked up and gobbled the last of the raw food before jumping in after the duck, unaware that he was in his least favourite place.

"Stupid boy," he muttered as Link meowed and began toying with the rubber duck. Ike left his boots at the entrance, hung his hat and jacket on the hook on the back of door and began to strip off his pants. He wasn't too concern with decency around Link; his mind was too animalistic to think thoughts like a fangirl.

After slipping on a pair of board shorts located in the cabinet, the muscular man took out a bottle of cat shampoo and a scrubber. Giving a heavy sigh, he then reached for the shower head and began squirting at Link.

As if the touch of the water had knocked him out of the catnip state, Link gave a yell of surprise and tried to scramble out of the tub. Ike pushed the tub's plug down and left the shower head running as he calmly strode up to where the blonde was trying to claw his way out of the tiled area. It was amusing watching Link run and smash himself into the door instead of standing up and unlocking it, like the ringmaster perfectly knew he could. His job was that little much easier to do. No running after the half-human.

The strong ringmaster grabbed the lion's hair to pull him inside the tub, sliding in himself as he went. The lion roared at his master and tried to escape from his firm grip by scratching the man's bare chest with his long, sharp nails. Blood was drawn but Ike just dunked the big cat's head underneath the water that was so rapidly filling the tub. The ringmaster used his free arm to grab the closely positioned cat shampoo and dumped as much as he could in, causing bubbles to rapidly form.

Lion Link growled and resurfaced out of the water, looking absolutely horrified. Ike stared back in an exasperated expression as he threw the duck to the teenager in a hope to get him to calm down. No such luck as Link slashed its head off and made a claw mark on the ringmaster's toned left shoulder.

Still with a calm yet unamused face, Ike began scrubbing Link's hair and tail as hard as he could, causing the teenager to roar again and scratch the ringmaster's upper arm. The wet creature scratched the same area, except on Ike's other arm, and hissed at the ringmaster. The man just raised an eyebrow and dunked Link again.

"You're really enjoying this. Aren't you?" The man remarked sarcastically as he pulled Link back up by his hair. Again, Lion Link splashed and scratched his bare chest but yet, Ike still didn't react. The cold ringmaster turned the boy around and began scrubbing his belly causing the lion to yell and bite, with his insanely razor sharp teeth, right next to where he made the slash marks with his nails.

"Maybe it would've been easier just to throw him into a lake after all. This is what I get for being nice..." Ike was irritated with his bite-marks and bruises but he only practically drowned Link by turning him over and scrubbing behind his long Hylian ears.

He knew Link would get what was coming to him. He would pay for all the scratches and every blood drop he split. Later he would just whip Link's hide twice as hard as he already planned to. Oh he was looking forward to that.

"Master is going to get us in trouble..."

"Will you relax Marth? This video is gold!"

"You just like seeing Master like that! You know he's going to murder us when he finds out we've got him on camera."

"If he finds out..."

"When he finds out. Master always finds out."

"...Shut up."


... I'm not too sure who has the most explaining to do. Link, Samus or me. I need to think of more interesting ideas. I got a few though and you might like it. I'm warning you that these theme may get lighter or darker depending on my mood.

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