Palutena didn't bother struggling to get free from her bonds because what was the point for her anyways she was in a cage with iron bars being driven by a carriage no less in the middle of nowhere. So if even if she managed to escape from the cage, it would be a matter of how long she would either die or be captured again.
'Well at least I am not married to him.' thought Palutena as she recalled the events leading up to this moment.
*Flashback*
Palutena ran up to her room locking the door before hiding away in a closet, crying in pure rage when a knock was heard at the door.
"Young lady open up, this instant!" demanded a female voice. Palutena quick hid the fact that she was crying and opened the door as quickly as she could but that didn't satisfy the woman standing behind the door.
"What lowlife idea gave you the right to deny marriage to Lord Wario?!" demanded the woman.
"I don't love him." muttered Palutena.
"What was that?" the woman asked.
"I don't love him!" Palutena repeated louder this time.
"Well you better do." the woman threatened.
"Why so you can benefit from the merging," spat Palutena ,"or rather sleep with your brother-in-law's friends."
The woman then slapped Palutena across the face hard enough for her face to turn back a while before kicking her in the stomach.
"You are a disgrace to this family, all you care about is yourself, giving money we have worked so hard for to the scum of the earth, Helping those horrible men in suits take away our assets and let's not forget writing your distasteful novel" growled the woman , "Well I'm taking you to the circus where I've should've taken you a long time ago."
"What am I going to do eat peanuts?" sarcastically replied Palutanea.
"No," the woman coldly replied "You are going to be the act until you love Wario."
The woman then snapped summoning two figures in black ninja suits as if they were inside the room all along and subdued Palutena before she could react.
"You'll never get away with this!" hissed Palutena.
"Oh yes I will, daughter." laughed the woman as she watched Palutena being dragged away screaming various obsenities.
*Flashback end*
Palutena then came out of her trance to find a crudely placed giant circus tent with a big clown head on top with a sign that read 'Welcome To Master Wario's Freak Show home to the freaks banished by society'
'Oh You've got to be kidding me!' thought Palutena before she was dragged out of her cage and around the tent where a man in a golden suit , snow white top hat, a big nose and a crooked mustache was smiling.
"Welcome to the circus, darling." said Wario, as he eyed Palutena with his eyes drowned in sick pleasures.
"Call me darling one more time I dare you!" threatened Palutena.
"Feisty, I like that , makes the suffering more pleasurable." mused Wario which caused Palutena to spit in his eye before she was dragged away from him. She later was thrown in a room where it was blindingly dark , seemingly devoid of all life but yet she felt a cold, firm grasp on her shoulder.
"Who are you." she demanded, while trying to hide her fear.
"I'm going to make you my new favorite, my dear." replied a creepy man's voice that nearly scared Palutena.
"Calm down Bowser, she's not your chew toy." replied a voice that sounded like a little boy's.
"Yeah Bowser," added in a voice that sounded like a little girl's ," She is new here."
Then all of a sudden the lights came on revealing the room to be a giant cage with only two people in it aside from Palutena herself. There was a little boy in a half blue and half pink dress like thing with the head of a little girl sewn on him very crudely standing near Palutena. When Palutena looked behind her, she saw a whale of a man with a giant shell that looked like it was wielded on by a torch in addition to fangs to big for his mouth horribly glued on to his teeth and green eyes that mad Palutena feel sorry for him but she then turned to face the twins again.
"Who are you?" asked Palutena.
"We are the two headed twins Nana and Popo, we are here to help you survive this place." they both said at the same time.
"Okay so who was the guy who tried to make me pretty?" Palutena asked, not knowing what else to ask.
"Oh Bowser, he's a nice guy but the doctor made his brain and appearance with that of a beasts." explained Nana.
Before Palutena could ask who the doctor was, Wario came on the other side of the cage rattling the bars with his cane to grab the others attention.
"Listen up , you have a new member who will be temporary joining us today until she agrees to marry me," announced Wario , "She'll be appearing in tonight's show, so envy her appearance while you still can because right now, the doctor's gonna fix her up real nice."
After that he took her out of the cage and dragged her in front of a room with a ominous black door where Wario knocked before shoving Palutena into the room which was surrounded by bricks which were a mix of sickly green and palish chalkboard white. The only thing standing in the room was a chair that resembled a dentists chair only with various restraints all over the place.
'Where am I?' thought Palutena , when a man in a pale white lab coat began to walk down the hall.
"Oh, Hello you must be the new patient," said the man with a sadistic smile on his face, "I'm going to redo you, darling."
He then pushed her on the chair before restraining her in.
Her heart began to beat rapidly as the man laughed manically while wielding a chainsaw. At that, point all she could do was scream as he went down.
When she left the room she didn't feel the same anymore, with her eyes now a demonic red, her legs now a sickly dark pale color and sewn on to her, her hair was now full of real snakes and now she wore a electric collar which didn't matter to her as she was now thrown into yet another room this time it only consisted of a chair and a peephole. From it, Palutena could smell a strong sweet and yet salty smell as various people walked by her except one little girl with blonde hair tied back.
"Hi there." she chirped
"Hi." replied Palutena.
"Are you really a witch who can't feel any pain?" she asked.
"Why, are you asking such questions?" she snapped at her not knowing what she was doing.
"Oh, sorry it's just that I wanted to know if there was a way not to feel any pain at all," murmured the little girl, "It's just that mommy and daddy constantly beat me up because I'm a monster."
Palutena just froze in that moment she saw herself in that little girl's eyes and started to form a tear in her eye but then Palutena saw the little girl being dragged by the hand but she was looking back at her.
Then Wario himself dragged Palutena out of the room and onto a closet like room that was cramped and was small.
"You will not talk to the customers again, you hear me or did took away your hearing." Wario demanded.
"Screw you." muttered Palutena which caused Wario to slap her in the face.
"You are very lucky know that." muttered Wario as he left Palutena in the closet room, slamming the door behind him. Palutena decided to try and count some sheep while she was locked up in here but before she could close her eyes , she felt the room being carried.
'Thank you, I'm getting out of here.' thought Palutena as she hoped that the area would be far away but then the door opened shattering all hopes of her leaving this place.
"Ladies and gentlemen," announced Wario acting like he was an advertisement salesman of some sort ", Tonight we have The person who is immune to all pain, if you don't believe me look for yourself." Then Wario got a briefcase that came from a wheeled table before he dragged Palutena into a restraining device. He then began to throw the knives at a lighting fast speed which all hit her in the stomach and made the audience laugh very hard but to Palutena it hurt beyond hell not when the electric collar activated adding even more pain but when they demanded more.
"Of course we need a volunteer…. " Wario mused when all of a sudden a little girl came in the tent wearing a demonic mask that consisted of a purple version of her face with fake serpents in its hair.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I the great Medusa will make this circus disappear before your very eyes," announced The girl in her loudest voice which Palutena remembered from earlier , "You all pick on people like her because your all sick twisted Fucks, the lot of you laughing here but now I'm going to make you all pay!" She then lit a match and dropped it on the floor causing the tent to be devoted by the orange flames of wraith while she was laughing at everyones panicked reactions. The fire also freed Palutena from her bindings as it burned off the restraints. She then pulled the knives out of her before trying to crawl slowly to an exit until Wario himself blocked the way.
"You aren't going anywhere." taunted Wario.
"I…. love…. you." weakly muttered Palutena before she fainted.
Palutena later woke up in the Hospital feeling completely normal again.
"Well well looks like your worthless spirt has been broken, after all." said the woman, as Palutena was very tempted to strangle this woman right now but then a doctor wearing green medical scrubs came in.
"I'm sorry Miss Barbra, I must ask you to leave." said the doctor in a stern voice which caused Barbra to leave the room leaving the doctor alone with Palutena.
"How are doing today?" the doctor asked Palutena.
"Not very good." sarcastly replied Palutena.
"I'm just going to be frank with you, Wario is going to rebuild his circus and you are going to be his star again." said the doctor.
"What?!" was Palutena's reaction.
"I'm really sorry." the doctor muttered before he left Palutena alone filled with despair which caused her to get out of the hospital bed, break out of the window and jumped.
'I lied' was her final thought before she hit the ground now stained by her blood. Even though her body seeming unmoving, Palutena kept on falling until she landed in a crimson swap which felt very hot pressed against her skin.
'so this is hell eh?' Palutena thought as she just took the pain she felt while ignoring the cries for salvation.
It wasn't five minutes that an angel with spiky brown hair appeared toward Palutena with his arms opened.
"I have come to thee offering thee salvation in return for your use as an executioner for five people," said the angel, "I'll give you the option of refusing."
"That won't be needed," Palutena said, "I'll do it."
With that, the angel offered his hand to Palutena which she grabbed, causing her to be free from hell before he flew her to a giant barren island with nothing but red soil not counting the seven people gathered in a circle, dressed in red and bore hoods that covered their entire faces . As soon as Palutena's feet touched the ground, she was given an axe.
"You are to execute them without any hesitation nor emotion." instructed the angel before he left Palutena. She then walked toward the person nearest her and aimed her axe at the person's head before cutting it clean off. She then did the same with the next person and so forth until four remained.
"At least I'm going with my sister." said the first one in a voice simliar to Popo's before Palutena chopped off his head.
"Same here, brother." replied the second one in a voice similar to Nana's before Palutena chopped off her head.
"At least I'm not a monster." replied the third one in a voice similar to Bowser's before Palutena chopped off his head.
"At least I never have to suffer pain." replied the last one in a voice similar to Medusa's before Palutena chopped of her head.
"Well done." said the angel ,"But I'm afraid The King doesn't approve of your leaving Hell."
"Take me to him." demanded Palutena as the angel took her to a tower that was made of human flesh where an demon identical to the angel was at the top, sitting on his throne as if expecting them.
"Well if it isn't Palutena." the demon said.
"What do you want with me?!" Palutena demanded.
"I can't let a single soul escape my realm, that's what's up," replied the demon, "So go back to your suffering."
Then as if a something inside of her awoken, she gripped the axe and struck the demon down, along with the angel before making her way to the throne and sitting down on it succumbing to her newly awoken self.
"Long live the queen." a demoness muttered to herself as she saw Palutena on the throne.
Author's note I based this one off the entire "Dark Wood Circus" series. Anyway 4 down three to go.
