Hiya peoples! Sorry for the lack of updating. Those who have read Oh Starry Night, thank you for dealing with the bad story and reviewing it. Also, CONGRATS SAPHIREKAT for being my first flamer EVER of course not for this story but for the Starry Night one. (claps) Well here's the disclaimer!
Disclaimer- I don't own any Sonic characters except MJ, Chibi Star, and Inferno. Kilala belongs to my friend Jena who's parents wouldn't let her stay with me, Maya belongs to my friend Alyson who got locked in a broom closet, and Tangy belongs to my friend Kathleen who is moving in June. (cries)
"5 Years Without You…"
By MJ the Seal
Chapter 9
The Circus
"Here we are!" Tangy cheered as she stopped dragging the trio. They had finally arrived at the grand circus tent. Surrounding them were cotton candy, hotdog, fried Oreo, ice cream, candy, drinks, and pretzel venders! In the tent they could see glimpses of people hurrying to their seats with popcorn and tons of other heart clogging food products. Also, they could see the circus performers running around getting hair, makeup, and other preparations done before the show began. Inferno's mouth began to over pour with drool to the sight of all the food.
"I'M IN HEAVEN!" Inferno cried as he ran to the nearest food vender and began to purchase nearly everything they had.
"Well enjoy your time at the Circus!" Tangy said before doing a back flip and disappearing into the tent. Inferno came back carrying nearly a truckload of food and souvenirs.
"Inferno we need to save our money! You can't just run around and spend it all on junk!" Maya shouted furiously as she grabbed a pair of cheap sunglasses and broke them in half.
"Aw c'mon Maya can't you ever soften up? It's the circus for crying out loud!" Inferno complained as he dug his hand into a bucket of popcorn. Maya put her hands to her head and signed while muttering something that sounded like baka.
"Alright, alright let's just get in before the show starts." Maya said just before the trio walked into the tent. Shadow turned around before entering and saw a dark figure slip behind the tent.
"Shadow are you coming or what?" Inferno shouted over the uproar of the crowd as the Ring Man (I think that's what they're called…) entered the spotlight.
"Wonder what that was all about…" Shadow thought as he took his seat next to Inferno who began to chomp down on a hotdog.
"WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE CIRCUS!" The Ring Man announced as people applauded loudly and made a huge uproar in the stands. "In the first ring we have the Elemental sisters!" The spotlight moved over to four female cats wearing different colored kimonos which represented what element they could control. The first cat stepped in front, wearing a red kimono and having purple and white fur with a couple feathers in her hair and yellow eyes. (Those who have played Sonic Rush may know this character except the fact that she is wearing a red kimono hint, hint) She took a bow and began to shoot flames in the air controlling them around making them appear as they were dancing. The audience was awed at the sight and the red kimono cat made the flames spin around in a circle surrounding her body. The next kimono wearing cat stepped up this time in a blue kimono with yellow fur, green eyes, and a small ribbon on her left ear. The blue kimono cat summoned a huge amount of water bubbles that spread throughout the entire tent. Little children started to pop the bubbles and get their faces slightly damp and the blue kimono cat summoned the bubbles back. Next, the cat began to move her hands up towards the sky as a vortex of swirling water flew up making it appear to be a water tornado. She moved her fingers and the swirling vortex turned into a huge dragon and the crowd began to cheer. The cat stood next to the red kimono cat, who was still surrounded by flames, and make herself surrounded by a ball of water. A white kimono cat, with black fur and green eyes stepped up in front of the two other kimono cats. She summoned a tornado and stepped inside of it, but still standing firmly in position without being blown away. The white kimono cat began to flow up the tornado as if she was in a chute and stood on top of it. The tornado began to move its way around the top of the tent circling it as people looked up in amazement. The tornado was then guided back down next to the other two kimono cats, and the white kimono cat made herself encircled in a small tornado. The last cat stepped up bearing a green kimono, and had blue fur, and gray eyes. The cat pointed her finger to the center of the area in front of her and a group of boulders erupted from the group forming a snake like creature. The cat made the rock snake slither itself over to her and she stepped on. The snake took off and slithered up the wooden post holding the center of the circus tent up, slipping its body around the post quickly. When it had reached the top the snake uncurled itself from the post and dived through the ground making a huge amount of dirt erupt from the spot. People began to look around the tent searching for the rock snake and the green kimono cat when a huge explosion of dirt and rock erupted from the center of the tent. The snake disappeared and the green kimono cat stepped next to the other three sisters and made a spiral of dirt surround herself. All of a sudden the Elemental sisters made the balls or spirals of fire, water, wind, and earth disappear and they all began to summon something. The red kimono cat summoned a ring of fire, the blue kimono cat summoned a ring of water inside the ring of fire, the white kimono cat summoned a ring of air inside the water ring, and the green kimono cat summoned a ring of rock inside the ring of air. The huge ring began to spin round and round creating a blur of color, then the ring came together and disappeared creating a shower of fire, wind, water, and earth elements fall down around the Elemental sisters and they took a bow. The crowded exploded with cheer and applause as the Elemental sisters bowed and walked out of the tent.
"Thank you, Elemental sisters, for that wonderful demonstration! Give them another round of applause everyone!" the Ring Man shouted as the crowd erupted with cheers for a second time. "Now for the second act we have the Chao Carnival and their special performance!" tons of kids began screaming with happiness as a flock of chao entered the tent. All of the chao flew up into the air and took a bow before they took their positions on the ground.
"THEY'RE SO CUTE!" Maya screamed as Inferno and Shadow began to cover their ears. A group of chao took out some instruments while others took a place in the center. The chao started to play their musical instruments to a beat that sounded like a magical girl theme. A group of chao wearing little magical girl costumes such as Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Card Captor Sakura, Magical DoReMi, and etc, began to float in the air and dance. They twirled around and some with wands pretended to attack another group of chao in bad guy costumes. The music changed to a tango theme and the next group of chao began to do the tango. The girl chao had red dresses on and the boy chao had the men's tango uniform. The girl's twirled and landed in the boy chaos' arms before the music stopped and were given a rose. The music changed to a sad melody and all the chao stepped up and began to wave goodbye before flying slowly out of the stadium with the audience cheering.
"Now for the last act…Tangy the Monkey!" The audience began to cheer as Tangy, now wearing a white leotard, stepped up to the microphone.
"Thanks everyone for coming tonight!" The audience began to clap yet again as Tangy continued. "Tonight I will perform my most famous act…The Hyper Monkey Act!" The crowd was silent for a few seconds before a huge out roar of people began clapping and stomping their feet, which in turn made the stands shake.
"W-w-what i-i-is s-s-so s-sp-special a-about t-that a-a-act?" Inferno asked while he was bouncing around in his seat. Maya and Shadow shrugged as they were bouncing as well. Tangy stepped away from the microphone, put on a helmet, and hopped into a cannon. She lit the cannon and was shot out of it into the air. Tangy did a couple of front and back flips before grabbing onto a swinging bar with her tail. She swung herself and the bar to a nearby platform and then took off holding onto the bar. She jumped to the next bar while doing a midair cartwheel, then grabbed onto it with her tail and let go sending herself soaring to where the trapeze line was and hopped onto a unicycle. She grabbed some plates and began to swirl them around on sticks while riding the unicycle onto the trapeze wire. Tangy, after twirling the plates and reaching the other side, began to throw the plates like a Frisbee at the audience who realized it was fine china! Tangy dived off the trapeze wire and landed on feet some 50 feet down. She took off towards a motorcycle and hopped on it while lighting a ring of fire.
"I wonder who that figure was I saw earlier…" Shadow thought as Tangy rode through the ring of fire with the crowd applauding further still. Shadow noticed something in the far off corner of the tent, "It's that figure I saw earlier…" Shadow began to follow the figure gaze over to Tangy who was now lighting a barrel of gunpowder…wait GUNPOWDER! Shadow immediately looked over at Tangy who had light a wire connecting to a barrel of gunpowder as she was sitting on the barrel holding nothing but a small board of wood. The wire reach the barrel and it exploded sending Tangy hurtling into the air while doing flips and tricks on the board. Shadow then looked back at the corner where the dark figure was standing, the figure was gone from its position and Shadow was not able to find it again.
"If this is called the Hyper Monkey Act, then why isn't Tangy hyper?" Inferno asked as he began to eat his fourth bar of chocolate. Tangy stepped up to the microphone again and began to speak.
"Now for the final part of my act…THE HYPER RUSH!" The crowd began to scream as Tangy ran out of the tent and returned in a few minutes with a couple barrels of pure sugar. "I need someone to count down!" Tangy opened the barrels really fast and the audience began to shout.
"5,4,3,2,1!" The audience screamed as Tangy began to consume all of the sugar in the barrels at the speed of light. The first barrel was finished off in less than 2 seconds and the next 2 were finished before anyone could whosawhatzitnow! Tangy began to run around the stadium at a super sonic speed sending up huge clouds of dust in her path. She began to jump up, do cartwheels, and climb up the huge wooden post keeping the tent held up. Tangy bowed to the audience before diving off the huge wooden post to the ground below. The crowd held its breath as Tangy continued dropping like a rock while spinning rapidly. She landed perfectly on her feet before dashing over to the microphone.
"Heythankseveryoneforcoming! Ohlookatthetimeigottogo!" Tangy said really fast before she sped off out of the stadium waving goodbye. The audience began to roar, clap, and stomp shaking the stands making it seem like there was an earthquake going to happen. The Ring Man stepped up and began to speak into the microphone.
"Did everyone have a good time!" The audience continued its applauding streak as the ring man continued speaking. "Well that was our show! See you next time!" The Ring man walked out of the tent and the audience began to leave. Shadow, Inferno, and Maya left the tent and began walking around the town.
"That was the most awesome thing I have ever seen in my entire life!" Inferno cheered as he jumped up into the air.
"Yeah, that was pretty cool. What did you think, Shadow…Shadow?" Maya said. "Hey, Shadow, are you even listening to me? Maya looked over at Shadow who was staring at something.
It was the dark figure from before, standing in the alley.
Talking to the Ring Man.
End of Chappy 9! Sorry for the lack of updating yet again, anyways, who is the dark figure, and why is the ring man talking to him? It will be revealed in chappy 10! Please R&R!