Chapter 2: Sad circus ballad
It was a cold and cloudy morning but even so all the artists of the Dark Wood Circus had to bathe, since every day they had to be washed, but they did not bathe alone, but the lovers of the circus owner bathed them except Rinto and Lenka who were bathed by the owner of the circus and the Ringmaster something that would be disgusting to anyone. Artists hate having to bathe, since when they took off their clothes, their scars were exposed from the transformations they had suffered, both visible and not visible.
The one who most hated to bathe was the deformed diva, not only because each time she was undressed, her body was exposed with deep scars, but every time she saw the beautiful and perfect bodies of the owners' lovers, she could not help but be filled with jealousy. of them, since she wanted to have a body like that or to have her old body again; the male head of The clown with 2 heads hated to bathe too, not only to see the notoriously hermaphroditic body that he shared with his sister but that she always closed her eyes and smiled, everything always disconcerted and annoyed her. That's how it was every morning in that circus: some hated this, others like the monstrous dancer produced a lot of indifference, etc. The only one who didn't care was the blue beast as they bathed him with buckets of warm water because the owner's lovers didn't come near him out of fear of him.
Meanwhile the owner of the circus and the Ringmaster demon after bathing the Ukrainian twins and send them to his tent. They were left alone, the owner of the circus looked thoughtful as if something bothered him.
"Something happens?" the devil asked
"Nothing… I only remember the past"
"I thought you hated the past"
"In part, but in others I prefer to remember" he said caressing his own knee
"I thought it was because of the young Earl of yesterday"
"That brat is the least of my worries"
Monsieur André put his hands on his knees and remained serious, he remembered the past, although he hated what he once was, but sometimes he liked to remember the few happy moments he had with his circus with her, the woman he loved and who had lost because of that man. In that one of her lovers arrived: she was a girl who was in her 20s, she was thin, with long legs, small firm breasts, she had curly light red hair, green eyes and freckles on the nose and chest; the Greco-Roman tunic made her figure stand out very well.
"What happens?"
"I'm worried about you, my dealing"
"For me? Why?"
"I've seen it sad and I worry"
"You don't know how much your words make me happy"
"The only one who deserves to have all the success and glamor of the world is you"
"Really?"
The redhead nodded with a big smile and the owner of the circus kissed her in the mouth and then sent her with the other lovers. There was something that disturbed him and it was that he felt that maybe he could not grow his family of monsters.
Meanwhile Ciel couldn't remove the words that Monsieur Desmoulins said: "I knew a Phantomhive, it was a real pain in the ass". if he said that maybe that Frenchman was involved in something murky or maybe he still was, that man It was dangerous or maybe too stupid, maybe both. But what intrigued him the most was knowing what Phantomhive was referring to: was it his father or his grandfather? Ciel couldn't get it out of his head until suddenly the carriage stopped suddenly. Something was blocking the way to the carriages. Sebastian by order of Ciel went to see what obstructed the step and saw that they were 2 clowns of the Dark Wood Circus; as all the colleagues of that circus, they were deformed: the first had 3 eyes, his clothing was fundamentally blue and had flowers painted on his face; and the second, he had 4 eyes, his clothing was mainly red and his face was also painted with flowers. Both clowns seemed to have an imbalance since they were always smiling, they had tics and behaved erratically. The clowns were promoting and motivating people to go to Dark Wood Circus but when they saw Sebastian they both smiled a big smile that almost did not fit in their faces.
"You see him?!"
"Yes"
"Are you seeing him?!"
"I see him, I see him, I see him"
"Are you understand?"
"Sure, Sure, Sure"
"EH? ... Gentlemen" Sebastian said, something confused
"Gentlemen?" the clowns said, before breaking into laughter
Although the demon was hundreds of years old, it was the first time he encountered such crazy and twisted beings as these, and he began to think, surely the transformations they suffered to have that grotesque appearance made them crazy, the human mind was more fragile and delicate than the soul. On the other hand, the clowns kept laughing what scared people and bothered Sebastian.
"Can you know what they are doing?" Sebastian asked
"What not once? We are announcing our circus" the red clown said.
"It's the best circus! Much better than that mediocre Noah's Ark Circus" the blue clown added
"Do you know the Noah's Ark Circus?"
"Yes! It was a circus full of faults and ..."
"You idiot!" the red clown exclaims, who hits the blue clown "remember why we were looking for him!"
"It is true!"
"They were looking for me?" Sebastian asked confused
One of the clowns gave Sebastian an invitation to give it to Ciel, then some police officers arrived who after panicking with the appearance of the clowns, they arrested them for obstructing the way to the carriages, the clowns didn't stop laughing.
After the streets were clear and Sebastian returned to the carriage, he handed Ciel the invitation. The invitation will be from Monsieur André Desmoulins, the owner of the Dark Wood Circus, who invited him to eat at his circus at 5:00 p.m. He also said that if he didn't want to understand but that he didn't delay; It was 4:30 p.m. and the park where the Dark Wood Circus was located was near. Ciel didn't even think about it.
"I'll go eat with that man, I want to know what kind of person he is"
"Are you sure, Young Master?"
-Yes, tell the coachman where we are going
-Yes, my lord
With that order they went to the park where the Dark Wood Circus was, when the guardians of the circus: Haku and Neru, arrived, they were at the entrance of the circus, both were paler and sadder the last time they saw them but they were also lower, as if they had shrunk 30 cm. The Ringmaster was also at the entrance of the circus with a smile as false and hypocritical as Sebastian's. When he saw it, Ciel felt that there was nothing good in this circus. Being in this circus so creepy, during the way in which the master and the butler were observed by the artists of the Dark Wood Circus. Each artist had a different look on the young earl: some were scary, others were curiosity, indifference, anger, hatred, some were empty, etc. However, there was a look that caused him great strangeness, it was that of the deformed diva, her look was not of hatred or fear, it was more seemed to speak with her eyes as if trying to warn him something but the young earl didn't understand what it was. Suddenly from his shop came the owner of the very elegant circus to welcome the young earl who according to his instinct and experience could bring him problems.
"Welcome my young friends, earl and butler, I was waiting for you"
"I must say that I was surprised by your invitation"
"Really? Hahaha"
The first time Ciel was in the owner's tent he could not see it well but now that he noticed it he realized that it was full of expensive luxuries, typical of a rich man or an aristocrat, but not only that, but there were also many portraits, those that most attracted the attention of the young count were 2: one was where 3 children, 2 boys and 1 girl appeared; and the other was a painted portrait of a very beautiful woman.
"Who are they?" Ciel asked, pointing to the photos
"I don't invite him to show him my memories and my photos and in fact I have many, we better go to dinner"
"Of course"
The dinner was typical food of the French coast and those who served the table were the lovers of the owner, who were light as usual clothes, the food was first and it was very rare served by the owner of a circus until served a wine of the year 1843.
"What do you think of the wine? It is a family relic hahaha!"
"I don't think he invited me for this wine"
"No, actually I want to know. What attracts you to my humble circus?"
"I don't understand"
"I know that something attracts you from my circus. is it Lenka?"
"eeeeeH ?!" Ciel's face turned red
"It must be that; the beauty of Eastern Europe is something amazing for anyone"
"It's not that! ... I'm committed!"
"Me too when I was young but that did not stop me from looking at other women"
Ciel could not help but with shame and it was reflected in the redness of his face. Meanwhile outside the tent of the circus owner, the deformed diva tried to listen to what Monsieur Desmoulins was saying to the young guest; she hated that man, he had turned her into that abominable being that she was now despite telling him she was very beautiful and the circus star, she hated him for destroying her life, her face and her body. Suddenly someone touched her back slightly the grotesque diva was afraid that he was the Ringmaster, but was relieved to see that it was only the rag doll of the tightrope, it was strange that she was standing, her bones were very thin and had no ligaments so supporting their own weight was very difficult and especially walking, it was easy to walk the tightrope but not to move the day to day.
"Why are you on foot? You cannot stand it" The deformed diva said
"They will punish you if they realize that you are listening to something that you should not"
"What can be worse than our reality?!"
"The flowers of acid"
Upon hearing that the deformed diva's blood ran cold just remembering it, the flowers of acid is the greatest punishment for artists when they made mistakes in rehearsals, in presentations or for bad behavior by the circus artists themselves. That was enough to make the deformed diva react and listen to what the rag doll said, as for the rag doll on the tightrope it was very painful and difficult to walk so the grotesque diva helped her; when the deformed diva and the rag doll were 3 meters away from the tent, they saw Ciel leaving hurriedly and with her face as red as crabs.
"Who is that child?" the rag doll asked
"Is a guest of the circus owner"
"He would be better move away if he know what suits him"
Both deformed artists withdrew since the fate of the young Earl Phantomhive didn't interest them. While Ciel tried to calm down after the words of Monsieur André Desmoulins about Lenka and how flexible she was, so much was his effort to forget his words that he stumbled upon someone, or rather with 2 people, with whom he had stumbled was with the clown with 2 heads to see them Ciel noticed the flowers painted on parts of the body they shared and also the scars they had both on their necks.
-Be careful! - said the female head
"Who you are?" the male head asked
"Well…. I'm a guest of the circus owner" Ciel said
"Great!" the female head said
"It is strange; Monsieur Desmoulins never has guests" the male head said
"Really. Hahaha"
Those Siamese being stared at him as if they didn't understand what the circus owner was doing but they could know something, however, that's where Lenka and Rinto appeared.
"They are fantastic" the female head said
"Yes…. They have perfect and agile bodies" the male head said
"Do you know them well?" Ciel asked
"No" the male head replied.
"They are very reserved; they also talk funny" the female head said
"But maybe they could be friends" Ciel kindly said
«Why is he so kind to us? » the female head thought
«Something want» replied his brother in thoughts
In that the Ringmaster appeared and with his presence the clown with 2 heads was intimidated and left as quickly as possible. The master of ceremonies told Ciel to come back and guide him back to the shop of Monsieur Desmoulins. Upon entering he saw how Sebastian was occupied with 2 lion cubs, where they appeared, «idiot» thought the young count when he saw the nonsense that his butler did until 2 lovers of the owner of the circus took the lion cubs to Sebastian.
"Do you feel better after taking a breath?" Monsieur André asked, tasting the wine
"Yes ... better" Ciel replied, still blushing
Although Ciel tried to get something from the owner of the circus, he would respond with evasiveness or change the subject. When dinner ended, Ciel left the owner's tent but not the circus; Ciel was determined to find something that would explain what the hell that circus was. With the first thing that was found was with a row of shops of multiple colors, inside the tents were the "artists of the circus" but caged although the content of their cages was luxurious they were still cages and they slept almost on the ground; in each tent the artists were asleep except in one. In the tent shared by the deformed diva and the monstrous dancer, sobs were heard, the monstrous dancer was totally asleep while the deformed diva was the one who was sobbing. Ciel felt very sorry for her, surely suffered greatly with that appearance and maybe for something they did to her and the other artists; Suddenly the deformed diva realized the presence of third parties and stopped crying.
"Who is there? ... What do you want? ... You are one of the lovers" in the voice of the deformed diva you could hear the fear
"No, I'm not" Ciel answered
"And who are you?"
"You can consider me as a friend"
"I don't have friends outside of this circus!"
"Quiet!"
"I don't know what you want or who you are! ...but leave me alone!"
"Relax yourself, I just want to help you"
"Who can help me? I'm horrible! People consider me abominable! What can be worse than this body and this life!"
"Quiet…."
"I don't want to calm down ... leave please ..."
"But…."
"GET OUT OF HERE!"
Ciel could do nothing but leave while listening to the crying of that unfortunate creature with turquoise hair, on the other hand, Sebastian laughed under his breath when he saw that his young master didn't know how to treat women. Walked 2 of the lovers of the owner of the circus: one was tall, with almost black skin, with a straight black hair and romantic eyes; while the other was a little shorter with light skin, lilac eyes and curly blonde hair. Both women were walking around the circus.
"I'm sick of taking care of these freaks!" the light-skinned woman said
-SHHH! Shut up, someone can hear you!" the dark-skinned woman answer
"Please! Don't tell me you are not afraid or disgusted, if I had given birth to a creature like them, I would drown it in a tub full of water"
"Don't say that, you know that our beloved worships those monsters"
"Don't remind me of that ... Why should we share him with them?"
"Because he's not just our"
"I don't care what you say…. I wish those monsters disappeared"
It was clear that many of Monsieur Desmoulins' lovers hated the circus artists.
In that also saw a small cabin, the only one of the circus, but it was well closed although you could tell there was someone in there as there was light inside. But it was not the only place that had light, also in a tent, which shared the macabre swallows fire and Piko, the bear child; Piko looked in the mirror while a sleepy macabre swallows fire looked at him.
"Why do not you accept?"
"Shut up!"
"The owner of the circus says that we are all beautiful"
"He said to take my time"
"Your burns are not as ugly as mine"
"I would not have them if my brother had helped me"
"You know? do what you want Piko"
The macabre swallows fire snuggled into his bed while Piko was still looking at himself in the mirror, then took a small towel and took off the special makeup on the left side of his face, rebelling that his skin in that area was almost pink red, cracked, with many red veins and that his hair on the left side was burned. How he hated to look like that since that child-like dwarf called him a freak. Before Ciel approached that store appeared Haku and Neru, the caretakers of the circus, appeared in front of him and Sebastian, as tall as light posts. They took care that nobody entered or left the circus, and least strangers.
Meanwhile Monsieur Desmoulins was preparing to sleep while his ringmaster and sometimes butler helped him prepare for his bedtime.
"The earl Phantomhive and his butler are still in my circus, right?" said Monsieur Desmoulins sure about it
"Yes, Master, Haku and Neru surprised them near the artists' tents"
"I knew; I know the Phatomhive very well. ha ha!"
"You seems sure of it"
"Of course, no new tricks are taught to an old dog and less a puppy"
"As you say, master"
"You go to throw the earl and his butler of my circus, I do not want his presence to make my children spend a bad night, and I want to be alone"
"Oui, mon seigneur"
When Monsieur André Desmoulins was alone he took off his sleeping pants and then his prosthetic legs, revealing that he no longer had them, they had been amputated a long time ago, this was the best kept secret of the owner of the circus, not even his lovers knew that he was missing his legs, only the master of ceremonies knew it, but he pretended he did not know, in a way he was just another freak. And once again Monsieur André Desmoulins was immersed in the memories he hated so much.