Chapter 3, as I have previously said, Laughing Jack and Laughing Jill are not my characters. This chapter is something I will be trying out, if you don't like. Just say so.
Little Lori was walking down the street with her older brother Niko. She was 6 and her brother was 15, and like most siblings he didn't want to be around her. Well that wasn't true; her brother just thought she was annoying, as most brothers did. On this particular evening, well Lori really wanted some ice cream. Her mother had told her she could only get some if her older brother went with her. Her mom did not go because she had not been feeling well. So Lori had begged her brother and begged until he had said yes.
Now here they both were, walking down the street going back home and eating ice cream. Just so that it hadn't melted, it was silent, which made her brother all the more happy to be eating ice cream. Suddenly though, Lori could hear music and so could her brother. They both stopped, for Lori her ice cream temporarily forgotten. It sounded like carnival music, but it was sad. Lori started following it, being a curious child she needed to know what it was. Her brother had grabbed her arm. "No, Lori, we need to go home" Lori dropped her ice cream. Her curiosity would change her life forever.
"I dun wanna go home yet" being only five, she had the childish voice. Not yet being able to pronounce stuff properly, it didn't help that she had a gap in the front of her mouth from losing a tooth. Her brother tried to drag her home but she pulled away from him with all her might. Niko being the brat he was, let her go and she fell. Scrapping her knee she started bawling. Suddenly the music got louder.
"Lori, come on, we really need to go!" he tried to help her up but she only pushed him away and ran towards the music. Her brother started to get scared that he would get into trouble he ran after her. Following her, he was faster but she was already so far ahead. They both turned into an alley, and everything went black. They both stopped; since they were young they were afraid of the dark. Nio had grabbed her arm and tried to go back. Everything was dark there too, the street was gone and the music was so loud.
Suddenly in front of them was a carnival, there were tents over every booth. Lights were also strung up and there were red, big red dots on the ground here and there. Hearing a loud booming voice from behind them "WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE BEST CARNIVAL ON EARTH". The children turned a bit and suddenly there was a tall woman standing there. They clung to each other in fear, a very tall lady was standing there, she was all black and white and had strips on her legs. Also a cone nose, hearing her speak again, but her voice this time was no longer so loud. "Where the candy is free, and the fun is to DIE FOR!" she laughed.
They were both so scared, they had nowhere to run, and Niko was almost scarred to death. He turned away from the tall lady, pulling Lori who stumbled behind him. He ran around a corner to run into a knee. He fell back, almost right on Lori, but he landed on her foot which caused her to fall and scream. A tall man who looked like the first person they saw here. Hearing a voice "oh, you can't run away now you just barely got here". He wrapped his freakishly long arms around both kids, who noticed finally that his teeth were pointed. They squirmed and tried to break free, Lori had started crying.
The tall man had only laughed "well, I'm Jack, this here is Jill" he said with his raspy voice and he dropped them in front of Jill. Who was pouting, Niko spoke up with an extremely sad voice "p-please, w-we want to go home". Jill knelled down, staring at his face, so close that her nose was almost touching his. "You have to play before you can leave though" she grinned. Lori clung to her brother, Jill pulled out some candy offering it to them. Lori hesitantly took her piece and ate it, her brother however didn't accept the candy. Jack pulled him up, prying Lori off of him. Shoving his hand into Nikos mouth, who was squirming and struggling to get free.
Jack had shoved candy into his mouth, holding his hand over his mouth "EAT IT". Niko had tried to swallow it all, he choked on it though. Lori was crying and sitting on her knees, covering her eyes. The candy eventually went down his throat, he had made horrible noises though as he choked on it. When he did swallow it, Jack let a smile spread across his face and dropped him. He hugged Lori, hearing Jill's voice.
"I have simple rules, everyone has to play, you can't run away, and no cheating" Niko nodded, his throat hurt too much to say anything. Lori whimpered a bit, but she too nodded. "Now, stand up both of you, to get a surprise you must win 100 tickets. When you get that you get a surprise". This time again, it was Jack who laughed "you start with 5 tickets each, 1 ticket per game, if you win you can win 5 or 10 tickets". Pushing both kids to the first tent, she pulled the tarp off it, the booth had heads on it. Lori screamed, then she threw up, there was blood dripping off the counter.
Jill put them both on the stools, there was a knife beside each head "head carving time! Whoever carves the best, wins 10 tickets, the loser gets 5". Lori was shaking, Niko picked up the knife, he was to terrified not to follow instructions. Jill however prodded Lori's back until the girl picked up the knife, with tears in her eyes she cut the woman's face in front of her. In the end her brother had won. Game after game it grew more gruesome, and Lori had lost, her brother got 100 tickets first and she only had 50.
Lori was like a broken doll now, she was dazed, and her brother had to pull her along. He did everything he could for her, he gulped as he stared at his tickets. Jill took them from his hand and counted them "wow! So many tickets my young little friend!". They both were covered in blood, some confetti and a few pieces of candy. Jack picked up Niko laughing "We have a winner!" throwing him over like a sack of potatoes, pushing Lori along, who stumbled Jill was hopping along, laughing.
Once they got to part of the carnival there was a board. The second Lori got close; she threw up from the stench. Like something was rotting. Niko wriggled a bit and he saw what awaited them, he fought hard for his life now. Jack put a stop to it by breaking his arm, causing him to scream. This made Lori snap out of it and scream for him to let her brother go. He didn't, looking at Jill, Jack knew this was her thing, she should have the honors, after all he picked the kids out. She got to play the last game, always.
Jack let Niko go, who dropped to the ground, and Lori ran over. Jill stood before them "Surprise! For our winner, you get to go up on the wall of fame!" Niko tried to stand up, he didn't want to go there, he started crying. Creating streak marks on his cheeks, there were people up there. Literally nailed there with big spikes through their bodies to keep them there on the wall. Jill lifted him up, pinning him to the wall, kicking Lori back when she tried to help. Jack made a hammer and nails appear. Placing them at different spots, Lori fell to her knees crying, she was staring at her brother. Who kept yelling for her to look away.
Jack started hammering the nails in, the screams had lasted minutes, but to Lori the whole event seemed to last forever, watching her brother writhe in pain as these monochrome clowns had nailed her brother up there. She got sprayed a bit with her brothers blood, the tall people were laughing. Her brothers screams had died down as his life drained away. They both turned to Lori, who started to shake. Picking her up, they let her live, dropping her in her room. With a bucket of candy, no one had believed her about how her brother died. Who would? She was taken to a crazy house, every now and then she can still hear the music.
