A.N. Hello again and for those of you reading thanks. Now in this chapter is a new character but not the actual second main character. so have fun reading this

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own The Cirque Du Freak Series Or Characters I Only Own The Ones I Made Up.


Chapter 3

As soon as I got to the theater's basement I fell straight to the ground and had to crawl the rest of the way to my bed, on my way to said bed I remembered that this is why I don't use nocturnal DNA all that often.

My eyes were closing as my hand finally touched the corner of the small blanket that usually made up my bed. Once on the blanket my head fell like a rock to the ground, and I would definitely feel that in the morning.

When I got up in the morning it was hard for me to tell what time of day it was because there were no windows down here and the only light came from a few torches located on the walls. Though my guess would be that it was sometime between late morning and early afternoon because I was the only one down here, other than the wolf man but he'll stay down here until the show tonight.

Getting up a sharp pain pierced the side of my skull, as I was falling to the ground I remembered how my head fell to the ground as I was falling asleep the night before. Getting up once again, this time taking my time trying not to get as big of a headache as the first time I got up.

When I finally got up only a small pain pierced the side of my head so I didn't fall down due to pain. Now that I was standing I could get a better look around the surrounding area. In a nearby corner I spotted a small sleeping figure alone by their self. I didn't need to get any closer than where I was because I already knew that it was small orphan girl, who was new to the cirque, and she went by the name Victoria.

Evra and I had found her in the last place that we had performed in. She was a very shy, quiet girl, her hair was blood red and her eyes were a piercing sky blue. The clothes she was wearing once belonged to me and fit loosely around her small frame as they had fit me. When we first brought her to the cirque I had to carry her half the way because her legs just couldn't carry her weight anymore, even though it wasn't that much to begin with.

Once at the cirque we introduced her to everyone around the central sitting around the fire, sausages were cooking for supper, Victoria's eyes grew wide and her mouth started watering as the sausages started turning brown.

I didn't want to go on torturing her so I pulled out one of the more cooked sausages, than I punctured it with a stick, and handed it to Victoria. Obviously forgetting that it just came out of the fire the small girl shoved half the sausage down her throat. The whole cirque watched as her eyes grew wide and tears started to stream down her face.

"Hot, hot, hot, hot, HOT!" she was jumping up and down by then and yelling, while everyone else burst out laughing. "Well what do you expect, it did just come off the fire after all." Evra had a hard time saying this through his laughter but still managed to get it out.

I was standing over the small girls frame laughing to myself at the memory. But then I remembered how Mr. Crepsley looked at her the first time he saw her. Her back was to him so he only saw her hair, but something about her hair sent great unease through him, but once she turned around as Evra introduced them, Mr. Crepsley suddenly became calm and even shook hands with her, even today I'm still stumped on what gave him so much unease.

She was still sleeping so I started my way up the stairs. Midway I heard another set of footsteps join mine, telling me one of two things 1. She just woke up, or 2. She was never asleep.

My guess was on the second one, Evra almost always called her my 'little shadow' so this is just proof that her nickname fit. I was going to town though and I didn't want her to come along and ruin my alone time, so I raced up stairs and started searching for Evra.

Once upstairs I bumped into Truska, nobody could understand her besides Evra and myself but I could never easily translate for her so that usually fell to Evra. Truska was looking down at me now, and Victoria was now clinging to my arm. I showed Truska my other arm as many scales started to dig their way out of my arm, just like many times before. Truska knew this gesture meant that I was looking for Evra, and when she saw the small girl clinging to my arm she knew why.

She pointed down the hallway and said something about a door leading to some kind of balcony, I didn't even know there was a balcony in the first place, so I just followed her directions with Victoria in tow. Standing in front of the door that Truska told me about I reached out and turned the knob only for Victoria to tighten her grip around my arm.

The door was open and within were many stairs probably leading up to the balcony. I placed my foot on the first stair which in turn creaked loudly in response to my added weight, as I made my way up I saw that every step was either cracking or it creaked when weight was added, and every step I took Victoria's grip on my arm tightened, along with the fact that we were getting closer to the top.

Another door stood at the top of the stairs, and as I opened it Victoria let out a little whimper, probably scared of the monsters that she thought were on the other side. It was the balcony all right, and boy was it dusty, this would never pass the white glove test no matter how many times we scrubbed it.

Evra was up here just like Truska said he would be, he was up here by himself standing near the edge. "Be careful, you may fall off." Victoria said in a voice that was close to a whisper. Evra turned around surprised. You mean he didn't hear all that noise coming from the stairs!

He stared at me than at the small person clinging to my arm. As if he knew what I wanted before I even asked, he spoke. "Alright but you have to hurry back before the show starts." I nodded my thanks and Victoria knew that I was leaving into town like I always did, so she let go of my arm and walked over to Evra.

"But you owe me." I turned to face him and nodded, than I walked past him to the ledge and jumped. I landed on my feet just like a cat; only cats probably didn't feel much of the impact when they landed. I looked up to see Victoria looking over the edge on the verge of tears, and Evra trying his best to comfort her while holding in his laughter. I than turned backaround and walked out of the theater, and started on my way to town.


A.N. okay so this is the third chapter and let me tell you I have the whole first book finished and the second book started in a notebook waiting to be typed. it's just that I can't get inspiration to type them on my computer so for those of you reading this Fan fiction please review. It would really give me motivation to type knowing that people are reading.