The swiss alps, switerland
(Skipper's POV)
"We are gonna rethink everything anybody's ever known about circus!" Alex shouted. "This is not going to end well," Elsa muttered. "Tell me about it," I replied. "We will come up with something fresh, something amazing, something brand new! Fresh, Never before seen! off the chain! Something that'll blow that circus promoter away!" and then as predicted Vitaly threw a lot of sharp things at alex while everyone else were complining and shouting. "I missed," Vitaly said. "Who do you think you are?" Gia asked. "Off with your head!" "I'm gonna chew his leg off!" "Who knew dogs could be so violent," Elsa muttered. "Let's see how Alex handles this," I replied.
Vitaly was holding an axe as he said, "Circus has been same for generations! WE make good, Classic Family entertainment." "Can he put the axe down?" Elsa asked. "But Last few generations," Stefano said, "Families… not so entertained." Everyone Looked at Stefano with confusion and shock vitaly just looked at him angrily. "Is that guy always angry?" Private asked. "Some People and Animals are just like that," I replied. "That's right," Alex said, "Families not so entertained because your'e just going throught the motions out there. It's missing Passion." "How one to have passion for stool poked in face?" Vitaly asked. "Exactly!" Marty said, "and by stool you mean chair, right?" "The Fact is, You guys, You got stuck in a rut," Alex contiuned, "You stopped pushing, you stopped taking risks. But those days are over."
"Because now we're going to completely change the show," Alex replied. "Then it wouldn't be a circus, would it?" one of the dogs said. "Circus is not about the acts you do," Alex said pointing to the dog's heart, "circus is in here." "How come freddie gets all the circus?" one of the dog said. "He meant in your heart!" Elsa shouted. "Oh!" the dog replied. "Circus is about following your passions, wherever they take you!" "You cannont change circus. There is long tradition!" "that's what everybody thought, Vitaly!" Alex said, "Until those French Canadians came along, drunk off their maple syrup and cheap pharmaceuticals, and completely flipped the paradigm." "Now they play Vegas. Fifty shows a day in 52 separate venues." Marty said, "and one of them completely in the nude."
"Yeah, that's right. And you know how they did it?" Alex asked. "Take off their clothes?" Stefano asked a bit too excitely. Everyone looked at Stefano in complete and utter shock. "No," Alex said, "They got rid of the animals." "What?" someone asked. "Say it ain't so!" Marty asked grabbing onto the two elephants' trunks. "Che Stupida! No animals!" someone else exclaimed. "How could they?!" Stefano asked. "Well, You know what I say to that!" Alex said. "Yes," I said, "we would all like to know." "Well, Skipper," Alex said, "I say they can take the animals out of the circus, but they cannont take the animals out of the circus!" Elsa, Kowalski, Private, rico and I faceplamed. "I mean, they cannot…" alex said, "I think you understand what I'm saying!" As alex said this a familiar song filled the air, "Who's playing prop and circumstance!" I shouted, "nobody's graduating!" Everybody ignored me. "yeah!" "yes!" "No!" Julian said. "We don't need humans because we've got passion!" Alex shouted, "What does a human say when he's passionate? He say, 'I'm an animal!' well, we are animals!" "I pretty sure Humans say that when there in a partying mood," Kowalski said, "not when their passionate!"
"Ignore him!" Alex said, "We'll make an all-animal circus! Because if we follow our passion, we can go anywhere." "Anywhere!" Marty said. "We can do anything!" Alex said. "Anything!" Marty said. "IF we do it together!" Alex said. "All of us!" marty said. "yeah…" the whole circus(except vitaly) shouted, "Yeah, Yeah!" "That was so inspiring!" I said. "Are…are you crying?" Elsa asked. "No!" I said, "These are manly tears!" The song that was playing from a radio changed to something I swore I heard before…some movie Madagascar or something or other. "our circus!" "Yeah!" "We're in! We'll have some of that!" "Can I hear you say Fur Power?" Marty said. "Fur power?" Elsa said, "no feathers? Rude." "Elsa," I said, "don't ruin the moment."
"Fur power!" gia said. "Take our circus back, and we'll do it togther!" "Fur power! Fur power! Fur power! Fur power!" "You and me, baby!" Gloria said, "An act together!" "I love it!" melmen said. "We can do that funk and groove dance thing!" Gloria said. "Dance?" Melmen asked. "This thing right here," gloria said as she started to dance around, "Look." "um…" "Me and you! We got this!" "but…" melmen said as Gloria ran off, "I can't dance." Elsa, Kowalski, Rico, and Private had now joined in on the chat, "Fur Power! Fur power!" "Chanting is fun! Chanting is fun!" Stefano shouted. "ah!" Vitaly said throwing his axe down, "I do not trust this lion." "Elsa are you getting this?" I asked. "Yes," elsa said. "I hear it loud and clear," Kowalski said holding up a small satellite dish. "Vitaly, I may not rust him, either," Gia said, "but I am tired of sitting and standing and rolling over."
"It is great tradition of sitting, standing, rolling over," Vitaly said. 'You know our circus is in trouble," Gia said, "This could be our last chance. But we will not do this without you." "Circus always stay together," Stefano said. Gia and Stefano stare hopefully at Vitaly and after a few moments, "Ok, I do one hoop." Gia ran forward and hugged Vitaly and Stefano joined in, "I want a hug too!" Stefano said. Vitaly laughed and bear hugged the two of them. "Not that's a happy ending," I said. "Has sharply dressed little birdies been spying on us?" Vitaly asked. "No!" I said. Kowalski had the listening equipment hiding behind his back as he whistled innocently. "Why would we do something like that?" Elsa asked glaring at me. "Um…carry on!" I said as we got the heck out of there.
Meanwhile…
(Narrator's POV)
Back in Monte Carlo a hospital ward was filled with dubois' men laying in beds in various kind of serious injuries with IVs attached to them. The Room was filled with the sounds of heart monitors. The Door suddenly slammed open and Dubois parked her scooter at the end of the ward. "Attention! I have found our Lion!" Dubois shouted, "He is hiding with the circus!" because of their injuries none of her men responsed to this. A song started to play as she took out her tranquilizer gun and shot out the lights in time to the music. "Non. Rien De rien (No, nothing of nothing)" Dubois sang.
(Kowalski's Note: we have included a handy translation.) "Non, Je ne regrette rien(No, I regret nothing)" she contuined, "Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait (Not the good things that have been done to me) Ni le mal tout ça m'est bien égal (Nor the bad things, it's all the same to me)" All her Men were instantly alert upon hearing this lyrics. "Non, Rien de rien(No, nothing of nothing) Non, Je ne regrette rien (No, I regret nothing)." The song seemed to have a healing effect as her men regained their strength and their casts and bandages were undone. "Car ma vie, car mes joies (Because my life, my joys)" Dubois sang as the song reached a cresendo. "Aujourd'hui, ça commence avec toi (Today, it begins with you)" As she sang the last lyric one of her men bursted out of his head bandage. Her men were now standing at attention ready for action.
(end of chapter eight)
