Chapter two: The Flyer and Cirque Du Freak
Adrienne left the motel around three in the morning. It was still pretty dark, which was good. She pulled her jack skeleton beanie back onto her head. Walking down the dark streets, the only lights were from the street lamps.
She had been walking for some time now, when all of a sudden she saw a tiny thing, or person. It was wearing a hooded cloak. It signaled for her to follow it.
Cautiously she did, probably not the smart thing to do, but she did. She looked over her shoulder as she followed the little person into the ally way. He, or it, made a small growl sound before handing her a flyer.
CIRQUE DU FREAK
FOR ONE WEEK ONLY---CIRQUE DU FREAK
SEE:
SIVE AND SEERSA---THE TWISTING TWINS
THE SNAKE BOY! THE WOLFMAN! GIRTHA TEETH!
LARTEN CREPSLEY AND HIS PERFORMING SPIDER—
MADAM OCTA!
ALEXANDER RIBS! THE BEARDED LADY!
HANS HANDS
RHAMUS TWOBELLIES---WORLD'S FATTEST MAN!!!!!
I looked at the small man, "You…you want me to attend this?" he nodded, and once again made a small growl. "Um………where do I buy the tickets?" He pointed up at the flyer making little "Eh eh" like sounds.
Adrienne looked at the bottom of the flyer and saw and address, date, and time. "Is that" She looked down and saw that the little man…person, was gone.
She looked down at the flyer once again. Cirque Du Freak, 'like one of those old freak shows?' she asked herself. She herself had been treated as a freak most of her life, like an animal trapped in a cage. She wouldn't go and see other people like herself be treated as such.
Yet,
She paused; the little person insisted that she go. She sighed, finally making her decision. She looked at the date and time, and then looked at her watch "Oh no!"
She ran to find the address, "Come on come on!" She yelled at herself as she continued to run faster. Finally she came upon an old, abandon theater. Out of breath and confused she walked up to the ticket booth. There was a sight which read "Be back in three seconds."
"How odd," she said, mostly to herself. There was a thumb and she looked down to see a small square piece of cardboard which read "Money" on it. She took out some money and placed in on the ground and knocked on the little door.
It opened and she saw a very small hand reach out and grab the money. Adrienne waited, still confused about this whole thing, then, not two seconds later, and out came a ticket.
She knelt down, picked up the ticket, and uttered a small thank you before heading inside.
This lobby was so dark she could barely see. She kept walking, running into a few spider webs in the process. "Isn't it rather late for a young girl like yourself to be out?"
Adrienne froze, and slowly turned around only to be greeted by a very, very tall man. "Um…I uh…" she pulled out her ticked and showed it to the man "I'm her to see the show."
The man smiled as if realizing who she was, "I am Mr. Tall." 'How appropriate' she thought "Um I am "Adrienne." She stopped "How did you know my name?"
He smiled "I know a lot of things. Come we must hurry, the show is about to begin." He opened the door and I saw that the theater was full, except for one seat up front. "Go and sit. Oh and enjoy the show."
Adrienne walked down the aisle till she reached her seat, which happened to be, exactly front row center.
The curtain was raised and the first "freak" was revealed. It was the wolf man; he sat in his cage similar to that of canines. Sadness came over Adrienne, seeing him like……it was like reliving her life all over again.
Two assistants came out and opened the cage and helped the wolf man out of his cage. Then Mr. Tall came out and addressed the audience.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Cirque Du Freak; home to some of the world's most remarkable human beings."
Remarkable, well at least he didn't use the term freaks right? The two assistants seemed to have hypnotized the wolf man. The lead him through the isles letting people pet him. Adrienne reached out and gently laid her hand upon him letting his fur pass under her hand as he walked by.
It wasn't soft like a normal wolf's fur, but spiky, like a hedgehogs spikes. She was amazed a how well they had hypnotized him. Fortunately, nothing went wrong and Adrienne could see the relief that had formed on Mr. Tall's face. E assistants lead the wolf man back up to the stage and back into his cage.
The next act to come was a man by the name of Alexander ribs. (A/N: ok readers this part I am kind of doing a mix of Alexander from the book and Alexander from the movie.)
He walked out onto the stage and introduced himself, ten removed his jacket. Once he did, Adrienne's eyes went wide. The man's waist was literally…nothing.
Alexander's act was a comedy one; he did things like making his ribs act like a xylophone. Playing theme and keeping his mouth pen so the audience could hear the musical notes.
Once Alexander Rib's was finished he took a bow and left the stage. Then on came an extremely "large" man named Rhamus Twobellies. Adrienne was amazed that the floor of the stage did not give way to this man's weight.
Rhamus stood there as the two assistants returned bringing a large platter of food. "How long do you think it would take me to eat all this food?"
People began shouting different times; Adrienne could hardly understand any of them. She was surprised that Rhamus could.
A large grandfather clock was lowered down and then, Rhamus started eating as the clock began to count. Adrienne thought she was going to be sick; watching this man stuff item after item of food into his mouth.
After four minutes had passed all the contents on the tray, were gone. Adrienne's eyes were almost the size of the tray itself. This man, how on earth could he have eating all this food without becoming sick himself?
The audience clapped as Rhamus left the stage. Next came a woman named Gertha Teeth. She explained that her teeth were the strongest teeth in the world. And she didn't disappoint.
Once Gertha was finished (A/N: please forgive me if I misspelled her name) Adrienne saw a flash of red, and that's when she saw him.
Larton Crepsley.