Once he was back there, Mr. Clyde said, "Back in ee' cage ee' go."
"No." he said, "I don't want to go."
"Feisty today, are ee'?" The Punisher asked, and then he brought his fist down on Zane's skull and knocked him unconscious.
Zane awoke later, near the end of the show, in his cage which was in a line with the other rooms for the freak show.
Darren and Mr. Tall were about to leave when Mr. Kane shouted to the crowd, "Come 'round back if you dare. See the frightening creatures of your nightmares, and come to The Ringmaster's Lair's very own freak show."
Then, half of the crowd, including the Cirque Du Freak's performers, went around back to see the freak show.
There were some fake's, like a woman with a fake beard, but a few were real.
Darren and Evra were intrigued to see The 'Human Spider' as the only one in a cage, and they asked why he was in there.
Then Mr. Kane said, "He is to dangerous to be let lose. He would kill all of you if he wanted to, so we keep him in here for your protection."
The spider boy was in the corner of the cage with a dead look in his eyes, and then Evra saw it.
There was blood in the boy's hair, and deep red marks on the boys back.
He pointed this out to Darren in a whisper, and they both stared at the boy.
"What does he eat?" One of the people who had come to see asked, and Mr. Kane said, "He typically prefers to eat fresh meat or animals, but he can survive on bugs and things like that."
"What's his name?" Another guest asked, and Mr. Kane said, "I don't know."
"He looks stupid." A little boy said, and then a little girl said, "Yeah, he looks really gross."
Then the girl came up to the cage and poked the spider boy.
"Don't do that." The little girls mother said, but the little girl poked him, and then she punched him, and Mr. Kane just stood there and watched.
She punched him again, and the spider boy grabbed her by the throat, and he pulled her up close to the cage, and he hissed.
Then Mr. Clyde, who happened to be standing there, helping to guide the tour of the freak show, shot the spider boy with a tranquilizer dart.
Zane fell into a heap on the floor of the cage, and slowly released his grip on the girl.
The girls mother screamed something about suing the circus, but then Mr. Kane explained that they had come on their own will, and it would be impossible to sue the cirque, and the mother gave it up.
Evra looked at the boy, shocked at what had just happened, and then Mr. Kane said, "Now you see why we have him in a cage. He is dangerous, and that is why Mr. Clyde here has the tranquilizer gun."
A few minutes later, Zane started to wake up, and Mr. Kane threw a rat in the cage, and said, "Watch this."
The spider boy spun a little cocoon around the rodent, and then he bit into it, sucking out the blood of the animal.
Then he ripped open the cocoon, and sliced open the rat with his teeth, and he ate the muscle and tissue from the corpse.
"Ew." The little boy said, "That's disgusting."
Darren felt bad for the spider boy, stuck in a cage, but it was no where near how Evra felt, because he had suffered just like the spider boy.
The other cirque performers felt awful for the boy, and they wanted to help, but they didn't know what to do.
Darren and Evra thought that 'The Ringmaster's Lair' was bad enough, but then, because they both had really good hearing (obviously), they heard muffled screams of agony.
They slowly, and stealthly left the group, and headed towards the noise, winding up at a tent that said, "The Punisher".
They peeked inside to see the Ciella Intred, the girl who had fallen during the show, on the ground, and Mr. Clyde, who they didn't know had left the freak show, standing over her with a hammer, bringing it down on her legs.
"You is clumsy, so now you is punished. Don't be clumsy, or you gets to gets punished. Ee' like punishment?" He asked cruelly.
Ciella was gagged and her wrists and ankles were tied, so she couldn't scream, or get away.
Then, Mr. Clyde noticed the boys and asked angrily, "What'r ee' doing here? Get out! Now!"
"What are you doing!?" Darren asked angrily
In response, Mr. Clyde brought the hammer down on Ciella and she screamed again, and everyone in the room could hear a sickening snap as her shin bones were broken.
Then Darren ran over and grabbed the hammer from Mr. Clyde and chucked it out of the tent.
Then, in one quick move, he had Mr. Clyde pinned under him, and Evra rushed over to Ciella, and he carefully picked her up.
She was actually quite light for her height, and it was obvious, from closer up, that she was malnourished.
"I am going to take you out of here." Evra said as he took off her ties and gag, and Ciella cried.
What Evra and Darren didn't know, was that she was crying tears of joy, instead of tears of pain.
