Chapter 7

The cursed circus

The blue team P.O.V

Without a doubt, the team was excited each with different hopes and expectations of this mission, all hyped up to clear the mission log as soon as possible and be able to relax. (/ReITjBWBy6Y play this song if you want optional music background) Lily on the other hand was an exception to the rule of calm, she was afraid of the prospect of even entering a circus. She had always hated clowns since young, nightmares always followed her at night causing her to become an insomniac, but she always found clowns disturbing. Thanks to a Damm demon clown who killed her family when she was 5 years old. On that day fate came knocking at her door, a man came knocking on the door in the midst of night, lily's dad came and invited him in asking him if he needed anything, the man revealed as he came in was wearing a crudely drawn clown mask which had an evil grin on it, and stabbed lily's dad in his heart with a sharp dagger, grandpa and grandma awakened by the noise ran to check , and soon followed lily's dad to the other world soon after, mum alarmed instead of escaping outside of the window ran and hid lily into a cupboard. On that day she had felt helpless, hiding in a closet as the clown killed her family, watched from a small hole in the closet as her mum hid her and attempted to kill the clown, and watched as her mum was cut down, she was unable to cry or even let a tear down in fear of the clown discovering her. Right before the clown left, it winked directly at the cupboard, though it was never seen again it forever haunted lily and never slept soundly even after she was left in the care of the exorcists. And right now they were not only going to find a clown but investigate the very circus which was next to her house in an abandoned city in Osaka. The circus had vanished the same day after her family was killed, but for some sick reason just reappeared out of nowhere as a new circus which was discovered on a routine check by the Osaka branch.

As the team headed out from the Osaka branch, after checking in at the huge office and placing their bags in their rooms, they left for the circus once again by the standard chartered sir pheles bus.

As the team arrived at the circus, a new sense of chill swept past their heart, and a huge presence of dark energy could be felt, almost beckoning for them to enter if they dared. The entire team noticed lily's face turning white, and her usual calm face was gone replaced with a fearful one, her legs wobbly. Melissa worried went and asked lily what was wrong but she kept silent, and said it was pre-mission jitters.

As they entered the circus lit up and the usual annoying clown music (/ReITjBWBy6Y ) could be heard, and the door behind mysteriously was shut, cursing the team moved forward to the main stage. The narrow hallway which only allowed a single file to pass at a time not only dark but was lit by a small bulb swinging from the ceiling with it glowing softly. As they proceeded further, lily seemed at wits end and was about to have a mental collapse, trying to help her Diana suggested for lily to be in the middle, to let her feel safer. Nodding her head lily quickened her pace to the middle. Finally reaching the central ring, the path glowed and a pentagram was formed, when a clown dressed creepily with a jagged shape mask. With a smile on the mask the clown greeted and the circle was soon surrounded by different clowns each with a different expression on their face, lily squirmed after looking at the jagged masked clown. The jagged masked clown began to grin and began to speak "long time no see lily grace, don't think I didn't notice you hiding in the cupboard 11 years ago, it may have been slightly more than a decade since I last saw you but, your face is still as fearful as ever, nothing like your mother who so fearlessly gave her life for you, her blood was sweet and it was entertaining to watch her squirm. As I told her that I know where her precious daughter is. Oh well…" instead of looking back in the past let's start the carnival. With a poof the clown disappeared and the 12 clowns circling them charged and attacked, as a clown was destroyed, it revealed a face that almost looked once human. Realisation hit ginjiro and warned the group that the clowns were zombies. Ginjiro summoned out his griffin and began to strike out at the zombies. Melissa began firing her semi-auto pistol and with precise skill killed one. Alex threw away his idea of trying to use a zombie as a familiar and just summoned out the ghoul from the training test with Izumo-sensei. Diana unsheathed her blade and gracefully led a graceful dance slowly facing off a skilled zombie wielding a sword. Soon all were dead (or at least permanently since they were actually already dead but just revived … u get the point.) clapping could be heard from the background and well, two zombies were summoned again, this time dressed casually. Lily's eyes dropped and uttered "mum…dad…" A large steel cage bound with magic sealed lily inside with her parents and pushed the rest of the team out, and summoned even more clown zombies.

Dramatic sound…another cliff hanger..no worries the next chapter blue team will be challenged to the core and lily will fight herself emotionally , and eventually the team will take on the big boss clown. The red team will also be touched on and will complete their simple C-rank mission.

there will also be a poll on which team u like better just for kicks

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