Huzzah! Alas, an update from me! Now beautiful people, heads up, I've made a few updates on chapter 6 with the character bios. I added 3 people to that list because they are important in the story line as well. Now I know what you're thinking "Is she keeping a Psychonautic feel in this story? Or at least is she trying?" My response is this, yes, yes I'm trying... ok I just know you're ignoring this part of my lecture so just read on. But I advise you beautiful reader, post more replies and more chapters will come...
Chapter 9:
Kitty, Franke, Milka and Crystal stood behind a young couple that had placed their palms onto the small counter at the window of the caravan. The dim light inside revealed a middle aged woman, with mocha skin, dark curly hair under a red bandana, gold hooped earrings and a matching gold chain necklace with a green stone hanging, and a white puffy shirt. The lady inside had just traced their palm lines and took a small glance at the crystal ball next to her.
"I see a bright future for you my dear", she said in a light accent. "You will have the most beautiful children…"
The young woman beamed and smiled at her man, who looked proud.
"With another man", the fortuneteller finished keeping a straight face. It was comical how fast the couple's faces fell. Keeping her serious demeanor she leaned her left elbow on the counter shaking her right index finger angrily at the man.
"We have a saying about treacherous men like you where I come from. I suggest you go back to Santa Fe with your precious Isabella from the office and let Gabriella live her life", the young man looked stunned, and Gabriella looked at him furiously.
"I knew it, I knew it! You were cheating on me the whole time since you started working at that law firm!" she smacked him hard across the face and started to walk away leaving him in a trance. Then she quickly turned around and placed a 5 on the gypsy woman's counter. "Thank you for opening my eyes"
"Your welcome child, and May the blessed angels watch over you in your travels" she said. When the man snapped out of his daze he ran after her. "But Gabby, you don't' understand!" but the young lady just kept going at her pace. The girls watched in awe.
"I don't know about this Franke", Milka whispered behind Franke.
"Come on girl, she told the honest truth to them and didn't hesitate. And how she broke up that couple is something to admire", Franke said nudging Kitty's elbow.
"Yeah, and besides, if she's lying we could sense it", Kitty said, and then the girls gave her the 'look'.
"Ok fine, only I can totally detect brain waves when a person lies besides Raz, Lili, Milla and Agent Nein. Just trust me on being the lie detector for now", Kitty walked up to the lady as she closed the secure cabinet at her feet.
"Hello Miss Bubai, would you and your friends Franke, Milka, and Crystal like your fortunes read?" she smiled kindly at the surprised four.
"Oh she's good", Crystal said with an upbeat tone of voice. Franke and Kitty exchanged looks.
"I think you already know the answer to that", Milka said coming up from behind the girls.
"Very well then, please bring up your palms"
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Mikhail, Maloof, and Quentin wandered into the west side of the circus. They stumbled upon the various animals they use for their acts. In the bigger cages were 4 tigers, a bear, and 2 lions. In the half empty stables were 5 beautiful horses. In front of the stables was a small metal fence pen.
"Zis a very big bear, but I' seen bigger, in home country", Mikhail examined the big black bear behind one of the big cages.
"Cool man, just don't go try and wrestle it. I'm sure they need it for an act later", Quentin said as he perched himself on one of the stray folding chairs left by the caretaker of the animals. One of the white mares looked at him, and then nipped him in the ear.
"Ow", Quen rubbed his ear as the horse neighed.
"Mares like you I think", Mikhail chuckled as Quentin blushed. Maloof looked at a small goat with an earring on it's left ear with a light chain around it's neck. He noticed a small talisman on it and bent down to get a better look. For some reason the goat turned its behind at him and kicked the fence seperating the two.
"Feisty little guy..." he mutter under his breath.
"Hey, what are you three doing here?" a teenage boy in performance cloths with a reddish purple ponytail with a teal streak stood at the tents main entrance. The three boys held a deer caught in the headlights stance. Maloof tried to back away but bumped into the latch of the goat's pen and accidently unlocked it. The goat then took advantage of that moment and rammed the pen door open, smacking Maloof aside like a football. Mikhail quickly ran into position to catch him. The free goat quickly made a break for the exit but the teenage performer tackled it, and began tying it up to the pen with some of the leftover rope from the ground. The guys took this opportunity to escape.
"Hey, get back here", the teenager quickly finished the knot and ran after them.
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"We gotta hide boss", Benny said. Without saying anything else the three snuck away into the crowd. Bobby kept an eye out from the back, Benny looked out front, and Billy just went with the crowd. Following Billy's unintentional lead they stuck with the crowd all the way into the freak show tent. Little did they know there was a monkey in there with two tails that really loved cotton candy. The moment Bobby turned his head the monkey reached out from its cage and clawed at his hair. Once it got a good grip the primate gave Bobby's fro a good hard yank.
"OH GOD!!" Bobby yelled in pain. The owner of the little guy, a pink middle aged fellow with a thick brown hair in Larry the Cable guy cloths distracted the monkey with a banana in one hand, while the other pried Bobby free.
"I'm so sorry there son, Richard here just loves cotton candy. He didn't know your afro wasn't edible", the man sincerely apologized. Billy just simply smiled as Bobby backed away from Richard slowly.
"I think my brother will be alright, he's always had a think for animals with close human intellect", he turned to Bobby. "You ok there bro?"
"Yeah... I'm fine", Bobby locked eyes with the monkey for a bit, resisting the urge to get revenge.
Just then...
Milla and Sasha browsed through the small game area. As they walked past several games the owner of the dart throwing stand spotted them. Grinning he yelled out to them, "Hey buddy, wanna win something for your young girlfriend there?"
They both blushed slightly and walked over to him. Milla knew Sasha was a great shot but simply told him telepathically 'its ok darling, you don/t have to play'.
Sasha looked at her with the corner of his eye through his dark sunglasses 'It's alright Milla, I don't 'mind. Just pick out which unrealistic stuffed mammal you'd like and I'll do the rest'. Milla smiled and thought for a moment 'I'll pick it out once you win'
'Deal', Sasha took out his wallet and paid the man for 10 darts. In a blink of an eye each balloon popped one by one as little jets of color fling from Sasha right hand. The man's eye's darted back and forth from the board to Sasha.
"Hmm, I'll have that pink panda there please", Milla asked sweetly as the man took it done from the shelf, never taking his eyes off Sasha. As they walked away from the stand and took a seat on a bench near the food stand Milla and gave Sasha a light kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you for the panda darling", she leaned her head on his shoulder. She couldn't see him blushing as he gazed at her head, "You're welcome". He then gave into temptation and rested his cheek on her head.
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Lili, Chloe and Dogen walked around for a bit looking for Raz, but didn't' have much luck. Lili sighed and took a seat at one of the benches outside of the big top, Chloe and Dogen sat down on each opposite side.
"How hard is it to find him in a place like this?" Dogen wondered out loud.
"Well it's pretty damn hard if he's very busy now. It's almost time for the show to start so he's already dressed up in weird ass clothing so we probably wont' recognize him", Lili spat out. She watches 4 girls walk by wearing gypsy style dresses with a tall man in acrobat clothing... 'Hang on' Lili eyed the older man for a few more seconds, then jumped off the bench and ran over to him. Chloe and Dogen had just caught up with her when she grabbed the man's attention.
"Lili, Dogen, it's good to see you two again", he briefly shook their hands. "What brings you guys to our circus?"
"We're on a pre-camp road trip before camp starts up", Dogen answered.
"My, that sounds fun. So you're looking for Razputin I assume?" he looked at Lili when he asked this.
"Yes sir, do you know where he is?"
"I believe he's out back with his brothers and his cousins getting ready for the opening act", he looked at the 4 girls. "Oh where are my manners. Girls, this is Lili Zanotto, Dogen Boole, and umm..." he looked at Chloe.
"I'm Chloe Barge sir", she gave him a salute.
"Ah yes I remember now. These are young Razputin's friends from the summer camp", Rafael looked over to where a man in blue clothing was. "Excuse me; I have to see our ringmaster for a bit. Please enjoy the show", with that he walked away. One of the girls in a red and white dress with small gold earrings and anklets smiled at them, "I'm Noa, Raz's oldest sister. This is Lizzie and Amy and Joana, our cousins. We're part of the dancing act. You guys want to see Raz?"
The 3 nodded in unison, "Good", she flashed them a sneaky smile. "But we're gonna have to this when no ones looking. Follow us", the 4 girls led them to a tent a few feet away from the big top. Before they entered Noa yelled something in a foreign language. A familiar voice responded in the same tongue and they entered. Inside with his back turned was Raz, helping a small boy with a Mohawk and another boy in sandals tune the instruments on the table in front of them. Raz got out of his seat and didn't expect to see.
"Lili, Dogen Chloe, what are you guys doing here?" he asked smiling. He gave Lili a short hug that made his sister and cousins say "Aaawww" to make them blush.
"We're on a road trip before camp starts and we just happened to find your circus", Dogen waddled to him and gave him a fist bump.
"Sweet, I-" Raz was cut off by the screeching of the intercom outside the tent, "The final show of the day will begin in 15 minutes, please find a nice seat in the big top to enjoy the show".
"We'll talk later ok guys?" Raz grabbed his violin off the table and Lili a one arm hug.
"Sure, we'll come see you after the performance", Lili gave him a quick peck on the cheek and headed out. "We have to meet the others at the meeting spot anyway".
Raz raised an eyebrow and looked at them carefully, "Others? You mean the entire camp came?"
"Not exactly earth boy. A selected few came with us", Chloe said.
"So I'm assuming Bobby and Benny are no shows right?"
"Yeah", Dogen answered. He and Raz gave each other a high five and bid farewell.
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As they walked past a big tree on their way to the meeting spot Nils spotted some shady characters walk past them. He shuddered a little, but Elka still noticed.
"Something wrong Nils?" she laced an arm around his.
"Nah, just felt like a small bug went down my shirt... Ow!" he rubbed the spot on his back where Phoebe just swatted at.
"What? I just taking care of the bug on your back", she joked. Elton, Vernon, and even Elka laughed.
"Heheh very funny", he casually wrapped one arm around Elka's shoulders. As if automatically Elka felt a slight uneasiness as they walked past another strange man. Faintly she could hear his mind 'What fools those gypsies are..'
'I'll beat that brat so hard..."
She stopped dead where she was.
"Something wrong Elka?" Nils looked concerned. Phoebe and the others turned to see her staring wide eyed at the ground. She then turned her head to them, "We have to warn Raz..."
Dun Dun Duuuuuuun! Cliffhangaaaaaaaaaa! This is my longest chapta evaaah!