Chapter 2: Monkey boy? NO WAY!!
Jack awoke his leg aching like anything and his back felt like someone had put a knot in it, he clambered up to find himself in a cage with hay all over the floor and a few nailed on dead branches and a tyre swing.
'Okay this is weird' Jack thought and looked around, when he tried to walk a sharp pain shoot up his leg and he winced. His leg was bandaged up tightly; he tested it and found it was painful to put weight on it.
"Come and see the Monkey freak!" a voice bellowed scaring Jack out of his wits and he leapt up as a man came up followed by a small crowd. They looked and stared at him as they muttered in awe and horror.
"What the hell are you looking at? Never seen a Goth in a cage before?" was what Jack was gonna say but…
"Eek! EEK! OOH OHH! AaoAAH!" was all that came out, Jack covered in his mouth and realised it was a snout! He looked down to see he was covered in fur, and had a tail.
"I'm still a monkey!" He shrieked which came out as garbled just as before. As they moved on he slumped down and the smiled.
'I'm getting too up tight about this, all I have to do is let go of the monkey staff and 'poof' I'm a human and whoever stuffed me in here gets a lawsuit!' Jack thought to himself and yanked the monkey staff from his tail where it was held…well tried to…
It refused to come off, a gold glow appeared every time he yanked at it. He held it in his hand but then his fist was wrapped around tightly like glue.
"Come off you crazy stick…" He growled as he tugged at it with his other hand "I said…Let….GO!" But this only resulted in Jack falling backwards and the monkey Staff relocating itself around his tail.
"Okay lets be calm about this…" Jack muttered "AAGRH! How can I if this thing don't let go I'm gonna be stuck as a monkey and stuck in here!" He shrieked.
"See we're hungry are we?" came a voice "I found you in the wood two days ago; you've been sleeping like a baby since!"
'TWO DAYS!!!!' Jack thought 'No wonder why I can't get rid of this thing! It only took me one day to completely forget I was human…wait hold up…how come I still can remember?'
A ripe old Banana was shoved through the bars with equally ripe apples which didn't bounced they sloshed as they hit the hard floor. He picked them up and looked at them.
"Euugh" he groaned "you don't actually expect me to eat them?" he demanded but once again it only came out as a grumbled chatter.
"Eat up, as soon as that leg's healed you're earning ya keep!" the man grumbled and then walked off; Jack looked at the fruit with disgust but nibbled it carefully trying to keep clear of the dark patches. He looked around to find a small bowl of water, he walked over to it and saw that he barely looked human, he wore rags of his old clothes and his goggles must have been knocked off when he fell. He glanced out of the cage bars to see a ring of cages all with dead weird animals in them most of them looked like there were stitched up from different animals. One was an iguana with bat wings stitched onto its back and above its cage was a sign saying 'dragon' another was a red bird with glitter splattered on it and was called a 'phoenix'.
"Sheesh so I'm in a freak show…you know for some odd reason I'm not really surprised" Jack muttered "Wuya always said I should be in one"
Jack waited for night to come before he attempted to escape, just as the last light went out in the circus camp he took off his Heli-bot and rummaged around till he found a blow torch. He leapt up to the lock and melted it away and then smashed the remains with the monkey staff. He made a run for it but because his leg was hurt he could just manage a speed walk, he was just at the edge of the encampment when he tripped and a number of bells rang out into the night. He spun around to see a line attached to a bunch of bells.
"CRUD!" he yelped as he heard the circus people rush out, he ran only to winced and trip over his bad leg. He scrambled up they came and threw a net over him he screeched and tried to rip the net but he screamed in pain as he felt a jolt of electricity rush through him. He fell slump and looked up as the circus leader held an electric prod.
"Oh shi…" he whispered as one of them knocked him unconscious.
He woke up the next morning and his side ached like some one had fried it with a hot frying pan. The circus leader stood there his face one of thunder.
"Listen here you monkey boy freak" he hissed "You're my main attraction so get used to it!" and then he grinned and held up his Heli-bot.
"And to make sure you don't go wanders again I'll take away your toys!" he chuckled but stopped when Jack gave him the middle finger salute and the growled.
"You're no ordinary monkey that's for sure"
"No shit Sherlock!" Jack yelled but it came out as an angry screech.
"You'll be better behaved without any food and water for three days" the Circus leader declared and walked off. Jack yelled out more things that no kid his age should know but all it came out as monkey gibber. He sighed and slumped down and looked around.
'I've got to get out of here' he thought.
But the troubles had just begun for Jack…