My skull felt heavy to lift when I came to. Found myself sitting back on my chair, still inside of the arena.

"Dude, are you okay?" Steve asked me.

I rubbed my head with a groan. "I have no idea." I looked at him and then turned towards Nyx.

"Had us worry for a second." Nyx said.

"Sorry...I don't know what happened..." I muttered.

I then heard a loud, unamused cough that reminded me that we were still at the show. I looked towards the stage…

And the orange hair performer was glaring up in our direction.

"Are there any other surprises you have up your sleeve, sir?" Mr. Crepsley asked, directly to me.

Then all eyes were on me. Great…

"Sorry…. Everyone." I apologized, feeling quite embarrassed.

The performer gave me one more disamused look before continuing. "Now, if that is over with, let us get on with the real show." He said, pulling out his tin flute.

I rubbed my head as he began speaking to the crowd, my eyes glanced over at Nyx who was holding in a snicker.

"What's so funny?" I asked her, annoyed already.

"Oh nothing." she giggled, shaking her head, trying to compose herself.

"You sure you're okay?" Steve asked me.

I nodded. "I just… got light headed all the sudden. I'll be fine." I said before we turned back to the stage.

During the performance, I found myself not focusing on Madam Octa - shocking I know. I found myself staring at her handler Though he looked slightly older, Mr. Crepsley looked pretty much the same. Emotions were swelling within me that I could not explain. Like before when seeing the majority of the performers, I was hit with nostalgia.

I didn't know these people or that man himself… or at least I don't think so.

I came back to the circus to rid these nightmares I've been having in order to live a more productive life, but I was not expecting to have these feelings swell up.

Watching Mr. Crepsley's performance had me react the most. Not the spider but his presence. Of all the members, I felt like I knew him the most.

I temporarily turned away from the stage to see how Steve and Nyx reacted.

Nyx herself was enjoying the performance with a big smile on her face. Eagerly watching the show with interest and awe. Giggling when she saw him flinging Madam Octa up to his mouth and having her spun a web and he ate it.

However, Steve was different. He looked more tense, his eyes were hardened and cold as he glared at the red cladded performer. His hands jerked slightly as if he was trying to hold himself back.

Now this I know looks very familiar. Steve was like this year ago when we first came here.

I remembered being on that balcony, I caught a mere glimpse of my friend and Mr. Crepsley before this blue hooded creature came and scared me away.

That was when I knew something bad was going to happen tonight. This feeling was not going to go away cause I knew one of the four of us - Mr. Crepsley, Steve, myself or Nyx, was going to get hurt.

The spider performer came and went, the same blue hooded little creatures came out to grab the dead goat and dragged it away and everything went quiet.

And I mean really quiet, Mr. Tall didn't come back on stage to announce the next performer, nor to say that the show was over. No music, nothing.

"What's going on?" I muttered.

And I wasn't the only one wondering what was going on.

I looked to the other members of the audience and I could tell they were getting tensed by this, even increasingly more by Nyx.

Nyx groaned loudly. "Ugh, was that it? They stop performing after that one?"

"Hey, maybe they're having some problems." I said.

"Oh I'll give them a problem if they don't hurry up!" Nyx grunted, her voice was getting louder than before.

"Yo, okay take it easy." Steve said, wincing at her raising octaves. "These freaks are not worth getting worked up on."

"But we're all here for a show, not to sit in silence." Nyx said before standing up.

"Where are you going?" I asked her then.

She rolled her sleeves, that's when Steve and I saw an array of deep ugly looking scars along both of her arms. "If you want to do a job right-" she throws something at her feet and smoke develops from the ground, covering her and she disappears.

Oh you gotta be kidding me!?

"You gotta do the show yourself!" Her voice boomed as she reappeared on stage, spot lights shined on her. She had did a very quick change cause instead of wearing that loita dress, Nyx now wore this sparkly black suit twin tail top with red stripes, she had a bat like bowtie with a red gem in the center of it, black leggings with silver spider web like patterns that go from her knees up, ankle boots. Wearing a black fedora with a red ribbon on her head.

"Nyx the Mystics!" Mr. Tall's voice echoed her introduction and the crowd exploded in cheers that they got another show.

Steve and I both glared daggers at Nyx below.

She tricked both of us to come!

"You got to be fucking with me." Steve grunted. "Respect."

Seriously!