*Damia and Wren enter*

Damia - "You aren't a very nice Muse,"

Wren - "I am to,"

Damia - "Are not,"

Wren - "Name one time I was mean to you?"

Damia - "What about all the yelling in my other stories?"

Wren - "You were being dumb,"

Damia - "I told you, mean,"

Wren - "No, simply honest,"

Damia - "If that's what it takes to make your conscience feel better,"

Wren - "Now who's being mean?"

Damia - "I'm simply being honest,"

Wren - "You are so twisting my words,"

Damia - "I have no idea what you are talking about,"

Wren - "I don't need to deal with this right now,"

Damia - "Say the disclaimer and I'll stop,"

Wren - "Fine, Damia does not own Sm or GW, . . . Happy?"

Damia - "For now,"



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The Circus

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"Wow, this is so cool," Minako said as she looked around her at everything. They had bought four trailers and had them delivered. The three normal sized ones had two bedrooms each, one small, one big. The smaller one had one bedroom. They all had a place to eat, a bathroom, and couches. Ami and Hotaru were sharing one, Usagi and Rei were sharing one, Makoto and Minako were sharing one, and Michiru had the other one. They had all decided that Michiru needed her own space.

The girls had packed all their clothes and things into their bags and loaded them into the back of Makoto's truck and Rei's jeep. Usagi and the others were in the dark blue convertible that haruka had loved so much and had left to her Koneko in the will. They went to Georgio's office and let him know they were there.

"I'm so glad you all decided to join our family," Georgio said happily.

"So are we," Usagi answered with a smile.

"Let me show you where we put your trailers," He told them.

"I'll show them, dear" Lady said with a smile as she walked in, "You get back to work," She led them outside and showed them down the center of the group. they realized suddenly that there were little groups of trailers in the large group. They came to their four and discovered that there were three other trailers as well. The girls smiled and went into their trailers. It was seven at night by this time. The girls that were sharing trailers had decided that they could share the king size bed and use the smaller room to keep there stuff in. This had left a few arguments. They were going to take their time decorating their trailers.

"Now, tomorrow you need to get to the big tent at about ten for breakfast, then we'll watch you all and decide on the acts that you'll be doing.

"Alright," Usagi answered. They all went into Makoto's and Minako's trailer so Makoto could cook for them and the went to their own trailers and went to bed.


The next morning there was a loud shriek from one of the new trailers. Rei had just gotten Usagi out of bed. Rei climbed out of the trailer and walked over to Ami's. She was wearing her usual practice outfit. A pair of skin tight red yoga pants with a matching red skin tight tank top, a shawl of sheer red and black roses that was tied around her waist, and a pair of black ballet flats. Her hair was loose and came down to her knees with violet highlights. She pounded on Ami's and Hotaru's door until they came to answer it.

'"What?" Ami asked.

"You need to get up," Rei told her.

"It's 7:30 am," Ami replied.

"We need to practice a bit," Rei told her.

"Is anyone else up?" Hotaru asked, coming up behind Ami.

"No, that's why it's the perfect time to practice," Rei answered.

"Fine, but I'll get up Michi-mama," Hotaru told her and disappeared back into the trailer.

"Fine, I'm going to go wake up Mako and Mina," Rei told them.

"Have fun," Ami called. Rei went over and knocked on the door. At her third knock, Hotaru left to go wake up Michiru. She was wearing a pair of black stretch pants underneath a pair of purple boxers and a black spaghetti strap tanktop and a pair of black ballet slippers. Her hair was in a bun at the back of her head.

"They up yet?" hotaru asked Rei. Rei shook her head.

"Nope,"

"Then go in and take their covers," Hotaru told her as she walked into Michiru's trailer. Usagi and Ami appeared at the same time. Ami was wearing a long blue gypsi skirt that went to her ankles and a darker blue shawl wrapped at her waist along with a white peasant blouse with short sleeves and her hair was down as usual. Usagi was wearing a white halter catsuit with a pink wrap that only came down to mid thigh and was completely sheer and her hair was french braided. Ami had on blue ballet flats, and Usagi had on pink ballet slippers.

Rei walked into Makoto's and Minako's trailer. ten seconds later, two shrieks followed Rei back out. She smiled at the two in front of her.

"They'll be out in a moment," She told them.

"So will Michi-mama," Hotaru told them. Michiru came out then in a pair of aqua slacks that hugged her hips then fell straight, a fitted, cropped white tee shirt, a pair of suspenders, black loafers, and a black bowler. Makoto came out in a green tank top and a pair of green yoga pants as well as a green patchwork vest and brown ballet shoes. Minako was in a yellow cropped tank top with a pair of dark orange stretch pants and a sheer black over shirt that was four sizes too big. The shirt came to her knees, was rolled up to her elbows, and was belted with a lang fringed yellow scarf.

"Let's go," Rei commanded. They went to the big tent. Ami and Michiru grabbed a duffel bag each and brought them with them. Usagi plugged in a CD player and put in ' Rage against the Machine, Battle of Los Angeles'

"First we stretch," Minako announced. They all started to limber up and do warm ups. Twenty minutes later, they were warmed up.

"What first?" Makoto asked Ami, who knew all of the routines by heart and knew what each person was up to at any given moment.

The girls had opened for a few big acts and had learned new things all the time.

"Let's try Rei and her rings," Ami replied. They had stayed with this group for about three weeks, and This guy had shown Rei how to do all sorts of tricks with rings that you could fit through. She had taken it a step farther and set fire to the hoops.

"Who has them?" Rei asked. Michiru pulled the rings from her bag and tossed them to Usagi. Usagi distributed them to the other girls. They were scattered inside one of the three rings.

"Michi, lead her please," Ami called. Michiru nodded and watched Rei stand in the middle of the circle. the idea was to dive, flip, and jump through each hoop.

"Pretend this is for real, that they are on fire," Minako told Rei.

"Let's go," Usagi commanded.

"Ami," Michi said. Rei ran to the girl and dove through the hoop, landing in a somersault and hopping to her feet. "Usa," Rei did a neat back flip when she got there. "Mina," She did a ballet leap through it, landing on one foot and hearing Mina's name called again, quickly cart-wheeled through it. "Taru," She ran and dove out of it, landing with a hand spring. "Mako," Rei ran over and vaulted through it. They did that for the next ten minutes and then Ami decided that it was time for something else.

"Let's try the Arrow routine," Ami decided. Michiru tossed each of them a bow in their specific colors. Red for Rei, Blue for Ami, Black for Hotaru, Orange for Minako, Silver for Usagi, and Green for Makoto. Then she gave each of them a regular arrow. Only one.

"Let's make this one a disqualification," Rei said.

"Let's go," Makoto said.

"Fine, Go," Michiru said. The idea was for each of them to shoot their arrow to someone else, who then caught it and shot it to someone else. They had to keep paying attention to everything around them. Two people couldn't shoot their arrows to the same person or that person could get hurt. To be disqualified, you had to drop the arrow, or shoot your arrow to someone that already had theirs. It was Michiru's job to play ref. The game went on for about twenty minutes without anyone getting out. Then Ami dropped her arrow while trying to grab it.

"Ami," Michiru called. Ami picked up the arrow and backed out of the circle. Ten minutes more. People started to trickle in to make breakfast. five minutes, Minako shot her arrow at Usa, who was just about ready to catch Rei's arrow. usagi caught Rei's and knocked Minako's out of the way to shoot her arrow at Makoto. "Minako," Michiru called. Minako backed out of the circle. fifteen minutes later Makoto over shot an arrow that Michiru caught. "Makoto," She called. Makoto backed out. It was now Hotaru, Rei and Usagi. Twenty minutes later they were still at it, but Rei and Usagi both shot their arrows at hotaru at the same time. When that happened, it depended on who's arrow the person caught as to who stayed in. Hotaru caught both and sent them both over to those that had already lost.

"You two may duke it out," She told them, "I'm hungry," She walked towards the others and Rei shot the arrow at Usagi, who shot it at hotaru's back. Everyone gasped. hotaru turned, caught the arrow and shot it back to Usagi in a fluid movement. Usagi caught it and shot it to Makoto who caught it and put it into the bag with the other arrows. They cleaned up their things and went to get breakfast. Just about the entire circus was up to eat and do their stuff for the day. Everyone had trickled in to see the girls' practice. The boy that hotaru had seen playing with the Lions was watching them, a girl with thick light brown hair was with him. The girls walked over to the makeshift breakfast area.

"That was wonderful," Georgio gushed as the sat down to eat. Ami and Minako blushed, Makoto and Usagi ducked there heads, Hotaru and Michiru ignored him, and Rei raised an eyebrow.

"Would you guys do that for us some time again?" He asked them.

"We could make it more interesting," Usagi suggested.

"What do you mean?" Georgio asked.

"5 of us shoot arrows, and the other one dances, flips, does a routine, whatever, in the middle of it all," Makoto answered.

"Could you do that?" Georgio asked eagerly.

"We'll have to practice some more first," Hotaru said.

"Yeah, and what about our other routines?" Minako asked.

"That's what I want to talk about today," He told them.

"Like what?" Usagi asked.

"Minako's Tightrope act is wonderful. So is Rei's flaming hoops," He told them.

"Good, we were practicing the hoops this morning," Ami remarked.

"Makoto, what would you like to do? You're a fighter and a dancer, I know that much," He told her.

"Could I do something with the animals?" she asked.

"I guess so, talk with their trainers," Georgio answered.

"I like doing the stunts, If you take me off them you will have a very unhappy little girl with you," Hotaru told the man. (An - don't you want to know what 'stunts' is?)

"Of course not, I love your act," he told the girl.

"But?" She asked.

"But you wont be doing just that and your going to have to do some of them with other people," He told her. She shrugged.

"Fine with me," She told him.

"Usagi?" He asked.

"Yes?"

"Your a beautiful dancer, I don't want that to stop, however you'll be doing more than that as well," She nodded, "Ami,"

"yes Georgio,"

"What is it that you do exactly?"

"a little of this, a little of that," She told him.

"You're a clown now," She raised an eyebrow.

"Ok," She sounded a little dubious, but she agreed.

"Michiru?" He asked. She looked at him.

"Can you help with anything?" he asked her.

"Costumes, makeup, hair," She told him quietly.

"in that case you'll be in my wife's charge," he told her. She nodded. "Now that that's settled, I'll make the announcements and such. Oh yes, one more thing," he smiled at them, "Please use Alias' if your in any sort of trouble or just don't want to be bothered," He walked away.

"He is not normal," Usagi said decisively.

"No kidding," Rei answered.