"I've had enough of Schezo for the rest of my life. Oh, look, Carby. It's Rulue, and it looks like she's carrying something heavy. Should I dare?" Arle questioned.

"Gu." Carbuncle shrugged.

"Hey, Rulue. You look worried." Arle greeted her casually. "Oh, Arle, what a surprise. I'd love to test my graceful new techniques with you, but my darling Darkling Prince is deathly sick and he asked for my help to brings these potions to him. Oh, how great it would be to get him back to his normal, handsome, self with his deep, booming voice." 'Hope it's not infectious.'

While the martial artist's was in her own world, Arle and Carbuncle leaned over to peek into the bag. Based on the shape of the bottles, they were Witch's. They didn't get a good look at the labels, so who knows what they'll do.

"Good luck, I hope you can heal him."

"Of course, and I'll cook it up right this time. I'll use aubergine, beef, spinach, pineapple, Puyos, and all these potions to cure him and my true love for him."

Arle's face soured. "Don't kill him! I still need to get a book from him."

"It won't kill him. He's the dreamy prince of the underworld, he can't die."
"That's even worse!"
"You'll make him worse! You won't let you reach him!"
"Geez, Rulue, all I'll do is ignore his advances, say hi, maybe Puyo and grab a book I'm gone!"
"I won't let you. We still need that book! I'll be the one to cure him, prepare to battle!"
"I don't think we should fight if the Dark Prince is sick!"
"Don't tell me what to do! I must tend to the sick!"
"Well, you're sick too. LOVE SICK!" "IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE AN INSULT?!"

As the two rivals duked it out Carbuncle's played around with Rulue's nurse costume he stole from the bag.

Chapter 11: Behind the Curtain is Mundane

"And now ladies, gentleman and the uncool (you know who you are)!" The circus' relatively newest magician, Oshare Bones, announced. He wore a slightly modified version of his normal attire, just red with strategically placed hearts. "For my next trick worthy of my elegance. I shall change my slightly below average assistant into a slightly above average example of the opposite sex!" He pointed at Amitie.

Amitie wore her normal clothes because she forgot(?) to put on the assistant outfit Oshare Bones made for her. She's only slightly embarrassed at what's to come. Oshare's magic wand smacked Amitie's head slightly harder than intended. And the two got covered in smoke.

Once the smoke cleared… "Hey! Nothing's changed!" Some random schmoe in the audience yelled.

"How rude. My assistant has changed. Isn't that right, Amitie?"

Amitie took a big sigh. "It's true." Her voice was deeper. That one its own wouldn't necessarily convince the skeptic, but Amitie embarrassment sure did.

*Modest applause*

"For my final trick, I'm bringing out an old classic for you folks." From offstage a coffin shaped saw box was pushed into the cool posing Oshare's hand. The skeleton picked the saw from on top of the coffin. "Do I even need to explain what I'm going to do with this trick?" He put his hand again his earhole signaling for a response.

The majority of the audience said "No!"

"Tsk. Tsk. How wrong you are. Amitie dear, freeze me." Amitie silently nodded, he covered Bones in ice. He then picked up picked up with a lot of effort the coffin, and smashed it into the frozen magician, shattering him into a thousand pieces. The audience gasped.

*Knock knock* Came from the coffin lying on the floor. Amitie opened it. It revealed Oshare Bones being fine. "Missed me?" He had his fingers on his non-lips. Both Oshare and Amitie soaked up the praise.

*Big Applause*

"Oh how did I it?" He posed as the curtains closed.

"Because of me screwing up scheduling tonight we only have time for one more act." Pierrot's voice echoed in the tent, despite the harlequin being hidden. "So… The next act is either our acrobat: Hohow Bird ooooor THE AMAZING DONGURI GAERU!"

"DONGURI! GAERU! DONGURI! GAERU!"

"Your wish is my command!"

*Raging applause* Much to the dismay of Hohow.

"Rassin frassin. I practiced the new trick Ho So hard too… Whelp, break a leg." He told his small college.

"Ribbit, rib!" Hohow sighed.

"Thanks…" He slumped off the changing room.

"You look down. What's the matter? Don't tell me you're still annoyed over Gaeru's popularity." Oshare asked the bird, the bird just nodded. "Understandable, I wish fashion sense was common as the little frog is beloved on the stage."

"I Know Ho. But I wanna shine on stage too."

"Maybe you should tell Silvana? You can have some of my time." Oshare petted the Bird's back.

"Really!?"

"Of course it takes a while for me to come up with new magic tricks. Or if this potion that's supposed to turn Amitie back to normal is faulty, then I'll have to spend days finding one that works. That way you can have your extra stage time either way. I pray it does not come to that, I have a shop to run after all."

*After show*

Hohow confronted Pierrot working on some financing. The 'Quin sighed. "Is this about Donguri? Because I told you that it's everyone who earns the circus' revenue, and he's why we earn this much. Because it certainly isn't me or my charisma, slapstick acts or my talents."

"I Know Ho. Oshare offered up his time slot to me, I just wanted to let me know. Ho Ho!"
"That's not how it works, Hohow. You have to run it by me or Donguri first."
"Hokay. May I take Oshare's spot to make up for the lack of me today."
"Hm. Sure."
"Ho Ho Raw!"

Author's Notes:

This is filler. Transparency. About a part of the story nobody thought twice about and me not even once. With premise I should've thought more about.

This was supposed to be about the circus crew getting jealous of Donguri's talents. But I felt it be uncharacteristic for most. And now Hohow is the focus and get annoyed that Gaeru get more time when push comes to shove. The worst part is that Hohow gets the focus, and make it have no point beside introducing Oshare which I wanted to do earlier. Sacrifices had to be made?

Confession time: Thanks to this fanfic I check mail every ten seconds after every new chapter posted, awaiting/fearing the reviews. I should stop doing that, it's like a kid's urge to open presents early and it destroys my sleep cycle like the other hundred things that also destroy it.

This isn't my headcanon or anything, but similar to Tails in the Sonic series, I'd somethings like to think that Amitie is actually the opposite gender in secret and no one knows and nothing changes everyone's dynamics with her and she's playing a long term prank on everyone. I think it's funny.

If Oshare Bones would be reintroduced he'd probably get a localized name.

For anyone would really liked Mr. Amitie's Dad and wanna see more of him. Feel free to write it yourself.

Next up: Sun!