"where is the Ring King?" Serenity asked as we lined up in front of the tent entrance. "and Malik for that matter?"
"malik is already in place, you will see him a little later" Bakura responded as he took his place behind Yami.
"oh don't worry about the Ring King, you will find in a moment or so." grandpa told her as he lined up in front of her. "everyone follow my lead and whatever you do, don't get in his way!"
Just then all the lights went dark in the tent and music started to play a demonic lullaby. There was a small rustling of fabric in front of us and then a spotlight illuminated the mysterious figure of our Ring King.
He lifted his head and brought a bone chilling smile to his face as his words enchanted the air, "The night welcomes you into her dark embrace. We are her children and you are her honored guests. Welcome to the place where your nightmares are real and your darkest dreams are made reality. Welcome to the Nightmare Circus!"
"now!" grandpa annouced as we walked into the tent and into the brightly lit tent to meet the gazes of an excited audience.
We all had big smiles plastered on our faces as the crowd burst into applause upon seeing us. We walked around the ring and did a quick bow before going back to our grouping in the center of the ring.
We took one more bow and swiftly exited the ring to huddle behind the curtain once more, leaving Akefia to stand in the ring. "for centuries swords have been used for fighting but tonight they will be used for another purpose. Please welcome our sword extrodinare, Bakura!"
Bakura walked into the center of the ring once more and this time he had his bag of knives with him.
He was wearing all black and had silver bands wrapped around his body. He was wearing black leather pants, a black long sleeved button up shirt, a silver tie and an array of silver knives in holsters all over his body. He was also wearing a pair of black dress shoes.
He took out his largest sword and carefully examined it before holding it up to his mouth. The thin silver sword slowly started to dissappear into his mouth as he swallowed the sword. After a moment it was in and he took a bow. The crowd burst into applause and he removed the sword from his mouth. He looked around for a moment before pulling a few knives off of his belt and started to throw and catch them in the air.
Everyone held their breath as he systematically plucked the blades out of the air and tossed them back into the air, going higher with every toss. Finally he stopped and caught all of his blades before taking a bow.
"that was nothing!" someone yelled from the audience. "I could do that blindfolded!" he yelled.
"well why don't you come up here and show us!" bakura yelled back and the man rose from his seat to meet bakura in the ring. I smiled quietly as I saw it was Malik who was challenging him.
"well what are you waiting for?" bakura asked, acting surprisingly well.
Malik was wearing a pair of leather pants and a white dress shirt with a red and black stripped tie. Malik grabbed the knives and undid his tie before fastening it around his eyes.
He then arranged the knives in his hands and started to toss them into the air just as bakura had done a moment ago. After a little bit longer he caught all of his knives and removed his blindfold.
"told you I could do it better!"
"that's nothing!" bakura yelled as he grabbed another set of knives and flung it towards malik. Malik plucked it out of the air and threw one towards bakura. They continued to throw knives at eachother before the challenge was placed. "how about we play a little game? First person to not catch one of the knives is the looser. We both have to be blindfolded though, to make it interesting."
"you're on!" malik cried as he put his tie around his eyes again.
Bakura did the same and they continued to throw their knives at each other. The crowd was in awe as the two were able to pluck the knives out of the air and not get killed.
A few moments later malik missed a knife and it imbedded itself into a piece of wood that was behind malik's head.
Bakura pulled his blindfold off and took a bow as the crowd went wild. Malik also removed his blindfold as he joined bakura in the center of the ring to enjoy the applause with him.
They picked up all their knives and went backstage to where we were all waiting for them.
Ryou and marik ran up to their lovers and gave them big kisses before pulling back and scolding them about worrying them.
In the mean time Akefia had reappeared in the ring and was now introducing another act, unfortunatly no one knew when we would be called so we were on high alert all night until the show ends.
"next we give you a special treat, our very own little clown who has a demon heart, (A/N: thank you kaitlin for helping me on that part)the one and only mokuba!"
Mokuba started to shake behind the curtain and hesitated to go out into the ring. "hey mokuba?"
He turned towards me fear written all over his face, "you will do great, now make us all proud". He started to smile and ran out into the ring clutching his little cart as he ran to the center of the ring.
Unfortunatly our little clown fell as he was running into the center, eliciting some chuckles from the audience. He stood up and brushed himself off before doing a few gag tricks.
When the crowd finally calmed down after seeing him fall again he pulled a member of the audience to help him.
The littler girl that came up was about 8 or 9 years old and had long purple hair that was pulled back into a pony tail. She was wearing a blue skirt and white shirt with a big red bow on the front. She looked like she had just come from school which was odd considering it was the middle of the summer and school was closed.
Mokuba didn't seem to care as he instructed the little girl to toss him a ball from the bag every 5 seconds.
Mokuba started with 3 balls which quickly grew to be 36 balls as he juggled them masterfully. With each new ball the crowd leaned forward a little bit more and smiles grew a little wider until mokuba dropped all the balls one by one back into his cart.
The crowd gave him a huge round of applause and he grabbed the little girl's hand before bowing with her. She blushed and bowed as some cameras went off, probably from her parents.
She left the stage and mokuba packed all of his things back up into his cart before grabbing a fire extinguisher and shooting silly string all over the crowd.
Laugher resonated as he left the ring, pushing his cart as fast as he could go. Once backstage he smiled a big goofy grin and gave me a huge hug.
"thank you, Yugi. Thank you so much!" he said before scampering off to go find his brother to tell him how it went. Everyone else was standing around the curtain waiting to hear their names called, worried they would be next.
"now please welcome to the ring…"
