I'm able to update quickly! YAY SNOW DAYSS!
BeyMistress05: I hate that feeling—don't you? It's so…eerie. —feels watched now—
Astera Snape: From the lake to the warehouse? Even I'm not all too sure—I have a feeling it wasn't Boris or Jubilee, though. XD And I adore the image of Hiro on Tyson's shoulders—the li'l chibi coach needs a break. X3
BloOdY-JoKeR: Thank you. :3
By the gods, I'm gonna have FUN with this chapter! —evil laugh—
Hiro: …—hides behind Tyson—
Tyson: Uh-oh…
Brooklyn: I got a bad feeling about this…
Disclaimer: I don't anything but my hate for the clowny-religion…
Chapter 14: That's the Circus For Ya!
Tyson sighed, "We're lost, aren't we, Bryan?" Tyson asked the dog, who glared and growled in response and bared his teeth. "Ouch, don't need to get snippy!" Tyson said, huffing.
Once they crossed the street, Kai still riding on Bryan's back with Tala in his lap, Tyson plopped down on a bench and sighed heavily. Tyson eventually set Hiro on his lap, though, when the chibi whined about wanting down.
"Huh, Hey Ty…" Tala said after a moment. He jumped down off of the purple dog's back and ran over to a sign in the ground with vivant colours and brightly coloured lettering and pictures. "What's this say? I can't read Japanese that well."
"It says: Come one, come all to the greatest spectacle known to man and woman!" Tyson shouted, imitating a ringmaster, "Witness the fiery blaze of our fire wielders! Behold the power of the mighty lion and tiger tamer! Laugh at the humor in our 13-clown crew and even more great sights! Come see Devoro's Circus! Coming soon on: January 18, 2006, 5:00 to 7:00 P.M.!" Tyson smirked, "What do you know? It's today!"
Kai's eyes sparkled, "Ciwcus? What's tat!" Kai asked excitedly.
"It's a place where they do all kinds of really cool things!" Tyson explained. "Say…why don't we all go? Take a small break? I'll call the others."
"Hey, let me get my cell phone," Bryan said as he struggled to reach in his pocket. "HELLO? A LITTLE HELP?"
"Oh, right, sorry!" Tyson said as he patted the bench, motioning for Bryan to jump up. The dog obeyed, but growled before Tyson reached his hand into the pocket.
A screwdriver.
A beyblade.
A Frisbee.
A couch.
A computer.
A pad of sticky notes.
A box of tissues.
A folder.
A dictionary.
A whip ('for use on Boris only' engraved on the handle)
A can of silly putty.
A remote.
A cup.
A refrigerator.
A TV.
A script.
A pack of matches.
A green-almost-blue marble.
"DO YOU HAVE A PHONE IN THIS POCKET OR JUST EVERYTHING ELSE BUT THE KITCHEN SINK!" Tyson yelled after 5 minutes of pulling out random junk.
A toy sink was pulled out.
"….I…won't ask…I really just won't ask…" Tyson said slowly.
Pause.
"HEY!" Tyson grabbed the green-almost-blue marble he threw. "A blue marble!" Tyson grinned, but the frowned when he noticed no weight on his lap. "Hiro!"
"Hewe, Ty-Ty…" Hiro said and smiled, pointing to a payphone. Apparently he had noticed it and crawled off his lap.
"…You rock, bro," Tyson said as he inserted money into the payphone and dialed Brooklyn's cell.
— Hello? — A voice answered.
"Brooklyn?" Tyson asked.
— No, it's Miguel. —
"Why do you have Brooklyn's cell phone?" Tyson asked, fiddling with the phone cord and wrapping it around his finger as Hiro and Kai chased each other around, Tala and Bryan watching them.
— Because…uh…We kind of…have a problem. — Miguel said sheepishly.
"What's that?" Tyson asked warily.
— Brooklyn…got chibi-fied…— Miguel said, sighing. —But he's not 4, like the others…—
"How old is he?" Tyson asked, gulping.
—He's 5. A year older, so he's a little more controlled. — Miguel said, smiling, although Tyson couldn't see that over the phone.
"How'd it happen?"
— We got the wrong marble…It was aqua, not pure blue, — Miguel grinded his teeth. —Anyways, why'd you call? —
"To ask if you guys and the others wanted to see a circus!"
——XX
Tyson stood with Hiro in his arms, waiting near the entrance of the circus. He had pre-bought the tickets with some whining and pleading towards Mr. Dickinson's part.
"Hey everyone!" Mariah called, waving. She had braided her hair and was cradling Ray in arms, seeing her group met up with Spencer's group before they came. Mariah set Ray down and he ran over to Kai, who smiled.
"Hey," Tyson said, smiling as he set Hiro down, who just hid behind Tyson's legs, not liking all the people coming so suddenly. Ray smiled reassuringly at the bluenette and Kai stood beside him protectively, crossing his arms.
"Hi everybody!" Moses called, coming from the opposing direction. Miguel had a tight grip on a chibi Brooklyn's wrist while Oliver held Johnny in her arms, most likely because Robert and the others were trailing behind because they met up.
Oliver set the redhead chibi down and Johnny and Brooklyn, albeit a little shy, ran over to the other chibi's, Enrique soon joining them and trying to flirt with Julia. Julia wasn't too flattered and Enrique was met with a kick in both shins from a protective twin brother.
"Aww, Brooklyn got chibi-fied? Cute!" Mathilda said, laughing as the others sweatdropped. Judy walked over to them, holding a book on switchers. It was titled "Switchers".
"Sorry I took so long," Judy apologized as Max sweatdropped from the book and it's title.
"You went to the bookstore instead of looking for a marble!" Max whined.
"So now the only people we need are Mystel and Garland, right?" Rick asked, ignoring Max's whining and pouting.
Once Garland got there, though, everyone sighed, gawked, and groaned.
"A chibi MYSTEL?" Lee asked, sweatdropping.
"Gemini offered to let us use his—I mean her…grr…IT'S switcher and we put the wrong coloured marble in…" Garland explained, setting Mystel down. He ran over to the others, Kai and Ray following.
"Where is Gemini anyways?" Judy asked, noting the teen wasn't, or has been, present.
"He…she…he…uh…Gem said he…her…?" Mathilda said, getting herself confused. OH FORGET IT! Gem went off to keep looking for the correct marble!"
"…Well, now that we're all here," Michael said as they started in, Judy having to exchange the adult tickets for Mystel and Brooklyn to children tickets.
"All right, we need to find seats together…" Bryan said as he followed them. For some stupid reason, the circus let the animals come in. Hey, it's not like they'll burn the place down or anything, right? …Right?
"Here!" Tyson said as he went into a row. Hiro refused to let go of Tyson, though, so Tyson just set him on his lap. The seats were big enough for two chibi's so they shared a seat. They were towards the front, so only about 6 or 7 rows were in front of them, giving them a pretty good view.
The row went like this…
Judy, Max, Tyson (with Hiro on lap), Brooklyn and Kai (with Tala on lap), Mariah, Ray and Mystel, Garland, Romero, Julia and Raul, Robert, Johnny and Enrique, Oliver, Spencer, Bryan, Miguel, Mathilda, Lee (with Kevin on lap), Moses, Michael, Emily, Kenny, Ming Ming, and Rick. Oh, and Hilary was perched on the back of Mariah's seat.
Brooklyn looked over at Hiro, who was clutching Tyson's jacket, but keeping his head towards the arena. "Hi!" Brooklyn said and smiled. "I'm Bwooklyn!" Brooklyn introduced, not feeling too shy around the newcomer.
"…Hero…" Hiro said shyly, turning so he could look fully at Brooklyn.
Whatever Kai was going to say to them was cut off when the ringmaster stepped out and the audience went dark, causing Hiro turn back to Tyson and to tighten his grip on him. Tyson, in return, wrapped his arm around him protectively, smiling down at him.
"Welcome one and all!" The ringmaster shouted. "I am Devoro, ringmaster of this circus!" The chibi's smiled and were anxious for the show to start, but the only one who seemed slightly upset was Hiro, who kept hiding his face in Tyson's jacket when the ringmaster glanced towards their part of the audience. "I hope you all will enjoy my show and the wonderful acts provided!" The ringmaster vanished in smoke and the audience clapped as the acrobats went on, brightly coloured spotlights illuminating them.
"What's tat?" Ray asked, pointing as the acrobats flipped. "What awe tey doin', Mawiah?"
"Those are acrobats. They do tricks in the air…see?" Mariah pointed as the acrobats gripped each other's wrists and the one let go, swinging with her partner.
"Ac…ac…acweebots?" Ray asked, struggling with the word.
"Acrobats," Mariah corrected, smiling.
"So tey awe bats? Tey awen't humin?" Ray asked, cocking his head. Mariah laughed,
"No, no, they're very much human." Mariah said, smirking and laughing still.
"Hey, wook!" Kai pointed as the lion and tiger tamers came out after the acrobats finished with the audience clapping madly. Mystel seemed to love the lions and Ray and Kevin were fascinated with the tigers, but Brooklyn pouted, not all too happy,
"I feel sowwy for tem!" Brooklyn whined. "They gotta do tat all day wif no fweedom at all!"
"I bet tey get bweaks," Kai reasoned, "if tey don't, tey could always eat ta tamew!"
"Kai, be nice," Tyson said, laughing. Kai smirked.
"Tose lions wemind me of Wee," Ray said, laughing. "It teir mans!"
"Manes," Mariah re-corrected. "Manes; not mans." Lee overheard his name and leaned forward, looking at his sister questionably. Mariah laughed.
"Oh…okays," Ray said, smiling. Mystel grinned,
"Tey nevew had stuffs likes tis back in Egypt!" Mystel said, bouncing. Garland smirked as Hilary laughed.
"This is really stupid…" Bryan mumbled, trying not to attract attention. But when you're a purple, talking, jacket-wearing husky, that's kinda of hard to do.
"I like it," Tala said quietly, smiling and putting his front paws on the seat in front of him and propping himself up, getting a better view.
After the lions and tigers had gone off, the fire wielders played with fire with warnings of "Don't try this at home!" and "Remember, kids, don't play with fire! We're professionals!" as they did their acts.
Kai seemed to enjoy them the best, seeing as he was fire elemented with Dranzer and all.
"Why can't they have water wielders?" Max asked, crossing his arms. For that remark, all the adults or teens of the gang started laughing—even some people behind and in front of them laugh. The chibi's, who didn't get it, just ignored them.
Finally, after the fire wielders went off, they came on…
Born of evil…
Raised by evil…
They are…
The horrible…
The dreaded…
…
—raspy, eerie voice— Clooowwnnsss… (1)
Born of evil, raised by evil, they are…the horrible, the dreaded, and daddy-snatching (2) clowns…
Julia and Raul giggled and laughed at the silent antics, as did most of the other chibi's, teens included, but…
Tyson looked down, smiling and hoping to see his brother enjoying the site, but he quickly frowned. "Huh? Hiro?"
The chibi was clutching Tyson's shirt tightly and whimpering and crying into the teen's shirt. Max caught this and turned to the two,
"Whoa, what's wrong?" Max asked as Tyson shrugged, panicking slightly.
"I don't know!" Tyson said as he rubbed his chibi-fied brother's back, a futile attempt to calm him down.
"Hero?" Brooklyn and Kai turned to the Kinomiya brothers. "Wat's wong, Hero?"
Hiro didn't respond, just kept sobbing into his…err…younger (?) brother's shirt.
"Oh, my, what's wrong?" Judy asked as she switched seats with Max, hoping she could help.
"I don't know…the clowns came on and he just started crying!" Tyson explained. Garland turned to them seeing as Mystel caught the teen's attention and directed it towards the brothers.
"Whoa, what's up with the little guy?" Garland asked, not catching what was happening.
"We aren't sure…" Judy said as none of the teens noticed the spotlight trailing through the audience because they were watching the two brothers. Tyson, so caught up in trying to calm Hiro down, didn't notice the spotlight trail down their row until…
"Honk honk!"
Tyson snapped his head up, but was blinded by the spotlight. "Wah!"
"Tyson…" Max warned, frowning. "He wants you to go down there…" (2)
Tyson sighed—he didn't have time for this. He had to calm his chibi brother down and he couldn't deal with having to do antics down there. Normally, he'd jump for joy at the chance, but now was different!
"HONK HONK!"
"ALL RIGHT ALREADY!" Tyson yelled down at the impatient clown. He tugged Hiro off and set him down, the chibi bursting into more tears.
"NO!" Hiro screamed as Judy picked him up and tried to comfort him, but the chibi didn't want her and struggled to get free. "TY! NO! Don't go! DON'T WEAVE!"
"…Sorry," Tyson apologized as he mentally growled, walking down into the arena. The clown, happy that he finally got down there, took off Tyson's hat once he got close enough. "What the—? Hey!"
Seeing as the hat was alreadyworn backwards, the clown just plopped it back on his head and spread out Tyson's arm.
The clown did the same and started going around in circles, acting like an airplane. Tyson moved his arms down and sighed, glancing up at where Judy was trying to comfort his brother.
The clown, slightly mad about him not doing as he was…er…"told", moved Tyson's arms back up, in which Tyson sweatdropped,
"If I act like an airplane can I 'take off' and go back to my…li'l bro?" Tyson asked. The clown shook his head, shaking his finger at the blunette and honking. "…Don't make me get Dragoon out…" Tyson threatened, glaring.
"HEY TYSON!" Max shouted from the audience. Tyson turned to him as Spencer caught on and stood up, running down to the arena. Since he was technically Max, Spencer could make a fool of himself and everyone would think he was Max! Besides, Max had planned this out, he knew what he was doing…"Err, at least I think he does…" Spencer mumbled.
"…?" The clown looked befuddled as Tyson and Spencer tagged each other, Tyson running back up to the stands.
"Honk!"
"Awww, shut up!" Spencer growled as the clown moved the blonde's arms up, silently commanding him to be an airplane.
——XX
"I am so glad…we're out of there…" Miguel said as Tyson hugged Hiro tightly, the chibi not have letting go since Tyson got back to his seat; the chibi refused any contact from Judy, now, too, and he wouldn't stop crying.
"Wonder why…he freaked out so much?" Mathilda mused, trotting along side Miguel.
"Ever consider he hates clowns?" Rick asked, sweatdropping.
"…No, actually, I didn't," Tyson said as he rubbed his chibi brother's back.
"Tyson!"
Turning around at the sound of his name, Tyson noticed Gemini running towards them, an adult following.
"Dad!" Tyson shouted as his dad, Bruce, as he slowed down and panted. "What are you doing here?"
"Give…me…a…second…" Bruce panted, regaining his breath.
——XX
"So…what brings you here, Mr. Kinomiya?" Max asked as the gang all sat down in the park, seeing as no one was there and it was a whopping 65 degrees…in winter, that's great weather!
"Well, you're little friend here," Bruce motioned towards Gemini, who was messing with the switcher and the various marbles the gang found, "and told me that you in some need of assistance…"
Tyson nodded, "You could say that…"
"So, why were you all coming out of the circus?" Bruce asked. "And…where is Hiro?"
"We were going to it, of course," Judy said as Tyson sweatdropped,
"And, uh, he's right here…" Tyson moved his jacket a little so Bruce was able to see the fretting chibi's face, who was starting to calm down.
"He was chibi-fied, huh?" Bruce asked as Tyson nodded. "…Why in the world in he crying?"
"Clowns," Tala said, sighing. He was lying down next to Tyson and Hiro since he heard somewhere cats can calm people down.
"…Tyson, you know Hiro hates clowns…" Bruce said, looking at the non-chibi-fied bluenette.
"I found that out the hard way…I didn't know he was afraid of them, Dad," Tyson admitted. "Is that why he refused to come to the circus with us that one day?"
"Hmhm," Bruce nodded, "That's why."
Tyson nodded, but when he heard Gemini yell, he snapped his head over.
"DAMN THING OUGHTA GO TO HELL!" Gemini yelled, smacking the switcher in her palm…button side down.
Everyone: …Uh oh…
"…Whoops…" Gemini sweatdropped as the beam flashed brightly, hitting the teens.
———
"Max? Max…Max!"
Yet again, Max opened his eyes groggily; this time he was able to see.
"Guys, we can't get Max to wake up!"
"Funny, Spencer's waking up…"
"Well then help us get Max up!"
"Ahh, fine, fine, don't have a cow…"
Max propped himself up and yawned, rubbing his eyes.
"Max!"
Max finally had enough, "WHAT!" He shouted. "I'M FREAKING AWAKE!"
"…Maxie's normal!" Tyson exclaimed. "That must mean…!"
"Spencer's normal too and the switcher works!" Bryan exclaimed as Spencer sat up, looking around and seeing Max.
"YEEESS!" They both shouted, punching the air.
Gemini gulped, "Uh…guys…"
Another bright flash and cry of "Awww, not again!"
"Max!" Judy exclaimed as the light faded.
"Whew…" Spencer let out a sigh of relief. He hadn't been affected.
"…"
"Aww, Max is a chiibbiii!" Mariah squealed.
"…Hiya!" Max said, smiling. "My name's Max!"
"Hi!" Ray ran up to him. "Wanna pway? We pwayin' tag!"
Max nodded hyperly, "K! Who's evewybody? And is he gonna pway?" Max motioned to Hiro, who was hugging Bruce, seeing he recognized him.
"No, pwolly not," Kai said as he walked up to them. "He gots scawed by teh funneh cwons!"
"If tey so funneh why he scawed?" Max asked as the rest of the chibi's started coming around.
"We not suwe," Raul said. "But I heaw fwom Ty-Ty's daddy that he gots sepawated fwom tem and when he trwy to get backs cwons found him and honked at him!"
"Oooh…" Johnny shivered, "Me'd be scawed of tem also aftah somethin' tat…"
"Me too," Enrique said, scrunching up his nose.
"Maybe we can pe…pe…pewswade him ta pway wif us!" Ray said, smiling at the fact he said a word he heard the adults use once or twice.
"Wet's go, ten!" Julia said as they ran over to where the teens and adults were talking.
"Hero!" Kai called, running up to Bruce. "Hero, want ta pway?"
"…" The chibi looked up at Bruce before slowly letting go. "Suwe," Hiro replied as Brooklyn grabbed his wrist and walked the chibi's ran off to play around near Gemini.
While the teens, and eventually Gemini, talked about how they're gonna fix the problem and what they'll do till then, the chibi's…well, let's just say they weren't just playing tag.
Tyson glanced over at the chibi's, seeing them all talking and laughing, and then went back to discussing with the others.
"So, wat's teh pwan, Kai?" Max asked, smirking. The chibi's felt secluded with the adults keeping a hold on them.
"Well, nowmally I would say wun," Kai started, "But since we's smartew tan tat, we'll need a distwaction while teh west of us swip away!"
"We'll do tat!" Mystel said, motioning to Ray. Since Mystel has been chibi-fied, he and Ray seemed to be getting along much better. "We'll pwetend to gets a boo-boo ten you guys can swip away!"
"All wight! Wet's do it!" Kai lightly slammed his fist down into his palm. "Teh adults will nevew see it comin'!"
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Whoo-hoo! I love snow-days! Fwee, anyways…
R&R please.
(1) I'm afraid of clowns, all right! With those BEADY little eyes…and that make up…—shivers—
(2) This happened to me when I was actually around Hiro's age, 4 or 5 I mean. The clown wanted my daddy to go down there and I thought he was taking him for good and the clown was making my dad do all these weird things (like making him act like an airplane and he kept turning his hat backwards) and wouldn't let him go back and comfort me. I wouldn't stop crying and my mom wasn't helping too much. That started my fear of clowns…—sighs and shivers— My dad did, of course, come back.
T-LW-T
