After that moment of uncertainty, it all melted away very quickly when I saw the first act as it rolled onto the stage.
A familiar and yet frightening sight to behold; The Wolfman!
Though there were spots on his hairy body that were grey, the beast was still a terrifying sight to see. He roared and rattled his cage as two assistants rolled onto the stage.
Was it me, or the fact the older The Wolfman had gotten, the more terrifying he looked? He shook the bars of the cage hard enough to bend the metals, sticking his ugly head out and snapped at us.
All over, besides Nyx and Steve, jumped by his strength. If memory serves me correctly, then he bit a woman's arm clean off.
Just when The Wolfman was about to break free of the cage, Mr. Tall appeared behind him and whispered something to his ear, causing him to fall asleep in a deep trance.
"Now," one of the women assistants cautiously said as she and the other opened the cage and escorted the beast out. "You may come up and pet him if you want, but please, do not make any loud or sudden moves, or he'll kill us all."
The two assistants walked the wolfman towards the edge of the stage and had the audiants go to pet him.
Nyx goes to get up, but I instinctively grabbed her arm. "What are you doing?" I asked her.
She gives me a dirty look before ripping her arm out of my grip. "I'm going to touch him." she said. "I'm not afraid."
The way she was looking at me gave me a feeling that she doesn't like anyone touching her.
"He's not bad, smells like burnt rubber and feels spikey like a hedgehog." Steve shrugged.
Nyx rolled her visible eye but she ended up tripping. Probably stepped on the fabric of her dress, and tumbled down the steps of the stadium!
"Oh shit!" I shouted before I got up to see if she was ok.
Big mistake.
The combination of the tumble and loud noises snapped the Wolfman's trance.
He tipped his head back and let out a howl.
All of the sudden, I had images flashed across my eyes as I got to Nyx's side.
A young blonde haired boy...covered in blood… the wolfman's howl. The feeling of him dying in my arms, the taste of Pickled Onions coaxed my tongue.
An image of me tasting his blood…
I gasped as I stopped right at her and froze.
The Wolfman was standing right over us!
The ugly beast snarled and growled as he stood in front of us, inching closer to Nyx's face. The smell was unbearably familiar, rotten meat and rubber smell.
But...wouldn't the wolfman, I don't know, eat Nyx now?
Nyx was paled by the wolfman standing right in front of her, no doubt frightened by his appearance. She frozed when the Wolfman leaned close and sniffed her hair. During all that…
Her eyepatch started to glow a red color… I just happened to look at her face to see it, anyone else who was watching probably wasn't paying attention. Whatever was happening, it was making the Wolfman back off of her and snapped his hungry gaze at me!
As he went to pounce on me, Mr. Tall appeared behind him, grabbing his throat to restrain him before whispering something in the Wolfman's ear. The Wolfman struggled before relaxed, going back into a deep trance, having the ladies escort him back to the cage.
Once safely in the cage, Mr. Tall snapped his gaze at Nyx and I before shouting at us. "PLEASE FOLLOW OUR RULES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! This is not a nice, safe sircus where nothing goes wrong! We cannot guarantee anybody's safety, if you cannot accept that, leave. Leave now before it is too late!"
My ears began ringing after that.
I did not miss that.
Mr. Tall began chuckling softly, looking at me. "You do remember the last time this happened, right, young man?"
"Y-yeah...I did…" I muttered before Nyx and I got back to our seats.
When sitting down, I saw Steve tucking something behind his back and looked at us. "You guys okay?"
"Yeah, no thanks to you." I grunted at him.
Something told me that this was not going to be a good night for any of us.
I looked to Nyx, seeing her rubbing underneath the patch, turning her head away from us to do so.
"You okay?" I asked her curiously. The red glow was gone, leaving her as pale as she was before the Semi.
"Yeah, I'm good." She sighed softly, leaving her eye patch alone before turning back to me with a soft smile. "Just hungry…."