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Dark Woods Circus(Vocaloid): Mentioned pairings, one-sided Pairings.
Warnings: Dark theme's, non-con, abuse, deformation, based on a true story.
It had been a cloudy day and Matthew followed hurriedly after Arthur and Alfred. Just as he turned a corner he froze realizing that Alfred and Arthur were nowhere to be seen. The sounds of the market were all the more nosy.
Bells ringing, horses in wagons tromping past, people brushing past him as though they couldn't see him. Biting down on his bottom lip Matthew looked from left to right slowly looking for that familiar messy dirty blonde hair. Though their was nothing close to that.
"Oh, you're here! You're here!" Matthew jumped at the sudden voice turning he saw a boy and girl sharing a coat. Or at least he think's they are sharing a coat. You could never know with clown's they're silly. The girl's hair was brown and long, her smile sweet. The boy's hair was a darker shade of brown, it was almost black. He had a small smile on is lips as well but Matthew could see sadness in it.
Looking around Matthew finally realized that they were indeed talking to him.
"Don't be shy." the boy spoke up.
"Tell us your name." the girl said smiling.
"O-oh! U-um, my name is Matthew." Matthew said smiling shyly.
"Kaoru." the boy said his face becoming passive.
"Mei." the girl said smile still on her face.
"Here." the girl said handing Matthew a crudely drawn flier. Kaoru held out one of the two balloons he was holding. Matthew was almost sure that they both shared the same body, his head tilted but he said nothing.
He was probably seeing things.
"The Dark Woods Circus." Mei said, nodding to the name on the flyer. "Tonight, we'll be showing the sad fate that some of this world carries. Children that God has abandoned, restlessly creeping out. Children who can't even carry the trembling limbs they were born with." Mei's smile suddenly twitched, her eyes taking on a red shade for the briefest of seconds. Matthew's eyes widened in fear and he tensed up. Mei continued, Matthew's terror going seemingly unnoticed.
"Their shaking tongues even accidentally cry out. The crowns of their heads that caress the dark clouds." Mei said smiling happily as Matthew stared.
"They smile as they dream of their mother's warm embrace. Ooh, the deformity!" Matthew looked down at the flier missing Mei's change in expression.
"Deformity!" shocked Matthew looked up to see Kaoru and Mei walking away red painted footprints seemly seen only by him.
"Drop by and see him. Drop by and see him." Mei's voice flowed back to Matthew.
Hesitantly Matthew began to follow, curiosity taking over him.
Thoughts of Arthur left him, it seemed unimportant now. Arthur wouldn't care if he was out longer would he?
Somewhere in Matthew's chest he felt a sting and continued on.
Arthur wouldn't notice.
He never noticed.
"Deep into the forest
Far far in the back that way
There is a circus
With its ringmaster, wide eyed
And 10 meters tall."
The voice lured him closer to the circus and he continued the voice becoming louder and louder.
Finally he came upon the red tents all seeming to hold a different purpose. He followed the song and came to one of the tents.
"All of the cast is jolly
Though their forms rather strange
But it's so fun!
The Dark Woods Circus"
He heard footsteps behind him and quickly turned. Looking up slowly his eyes came upon two males one with long hair tied in a long braid with a red ribbon tied at the end, he had a strand of hair sticking out to the right. The other's hair was shorter and he had an odd strand of hair that stuck out to the left. Both stared down at him and Matthew gave a small nervous smile, they looked at each other matching smirks on their lips now. They were very tall Matthew noticed at they both stepped over him.
…
Matthew walked over to a line of people but realized that no one was entering. He took notice of most people looking in through holes in the tents. Stepping out of line he went over to the first hole he saw, as he looked inside he noticed the song turn darker.
"One with two heads." Mei sang as she and Kaoru stood in a bright orange room, both wearing a low-cut shirt that revealed the cuts and stitches decorating their bodies. Their two halves were shown to be sewn together. Matthew had thought they were sharing a coat but it seemed to be a whole different story. Matthew looked away hand covering his mouth and tears beginning to overflow. He felt the need to throw up. But he resisted, and continued onto the next hole.
How can someone do that to a child? He thought before looking into the next hole.
Inside was a girl, Matthew took obvious notice, her long black hair was sticking out everywhere and parting in odd places – the sides of her head. The girl wore a blindfold, and seemed to be chained to the wall. At first Matthew didn't realize what was wrong with her, but he slowly realized that the reason her hair was parting oddly was because two twisted horns were sticking out. His eyes widened, and slowly moved down to the strange dress the girl wore.
"A deformed diva." The girl sang right as Matthew's eyes reached her legs, ones which were not that of human's, but of a deer or horse. Her voice was lower than he expected, but it was still pretty. The girl's shoulders shook, and Matthew stumbled away from the hole, the sight of the girl crying saddened him.
He stumbled back into another hole, a wall which growled when he bumped into it. Terrified but childishly curious, he stood on the tips of his toes, shutting one eye and looking through the new hole.
"A beast that likes to eat cold things." It was a man with brown hair, his skin pale from being in the darkness for so long. He was fastened to a chair by a belt, while his arms stayed contained in a while straight jacket. He had long fangs, sticking out from his mouth, which was the only thing Matthew could identify that would make him deformed. His eyes stared blankly, glazed over, at the table in front of him, seemingly waiting for something.
Matthew watched someone walked into the tent holding - he pulled back hand coming to press to his mouth as bile began to come up his throat - decapitated arms. Matthew slowly looked back into the hole.
The beast's eyes suddenly darkened, and its mouth widened into a creepy grin. A grin of a predator watching its prey. And as Matthew watched, the beast began to drool. He pulled away from the hole just in time to hear the growls of the beast followed by some other ghastly snapping and crunching sounds. He shivered.
…
"Does anyone wish that I were alive? So undesirable am I in this body?" Lien whispered hearing a growl from the beast behind her. Not even a second later was the blindfold loosened from around her eyes. Mei grinned at her; Kaoru only looked at her in sadness.
"Why do you look at me like that?" Lien whispered again laying her cheek against the cage, Mei continued to grin. Lien looked to the other head, Kaoru, and spoke to him. "My face is rotting..."
"It's painful." Kaoru spoke up as Lien cried again, nodding in agreement. "It's painful and it can't be helped."
Grasping a few strands of Lien's hair Kaoru leaned forward and kissed it, dark eyes narrowing in anger as to what Lien had to go through for other people's enjoyment.
For their arousal.
"But still, we continue this circus…forever."
…
"It's fun! So fun! This circus is so fun!" Mei shouted happily waving along with Kaoru, the spotlight and people watching missed the shadow behind them. The shadow smirking with dark eyes, the shadow holding a katana behind their back. "You can see it in our rotting faces, melting eyes, and festering skin."
…
"I want to die." Lien shouted in her cage voice drowned out by the noise in the circus. "I want to die!"
Her tears ran down her burned face, she continued to shout hoping someone would hear her and grant her wish. "Get me out of here, please!"
She fell to her knee's leaning forward hair flowing over the floor and hiding her face. A shadow appeared with a fan hiding their mouth, eyes shining, hair in a ponytail hanging over their shoulder. The fan lowered showing the beginnings of a smirking mouth, in their opposite hand showed what seemed to be money.
Lien leaned back, head raised, eyes shining with tears.
"…But I feel like someone said to me, 'That'll never happen.'"
A rueful smile came to her lips, tears dripping from her chin onto the floor.
…
Matthew didn't know why, but he'd come back to the hole containing the "deformed diva". Despite the girl's appearance, she seemed the most human out of them all. He watched her cry out to the crowd, watched her tears flow down her face as she talked to herself. Matthew frowned, feeling sympathy and pity for her. He wanted to help her. He wanted to help all of them…
A shadow fell over him and, surprised, Matthew turned around, looking up to the source of the darkness.
His mouth opened, but never got the chance to let out a scream.
…
Walking around Sang Kyu and Yong-soo stopped at one of the tents holding the newest child. Blonde wavy hair surrounded the child's head; eyes screwed shut, tears falling down his chubby cheeks. Mouth opened to release silent screams. They looked to one another before walking away, disappearing.
…
"The body is distorted in order to bend to that twisted figure."
"Sang Kyu, wait up!" A boy with long sleeves reached out for the slightly shorter man's hand, but he moved it away, hiding his annoyance.
"We're going to be late, Im Yong-Soo." He said, quickening his pace.
"To crawl on the illuminated street with paper lanterns."
A boy with long sleeves reached toward the other man's hand and was able to grip it. Hiding his smile he pulled the other so they could walk around the circus.
"Everyone knows the feeling of walking down the street."
Kasem smiled lifting Lien's hands to his lips.
"This child has to cower alone."
The door to his cell creaked open, and the beast grinned as the scent of rotten meat reached his nose.
"I guess the shadows reach long."
Lien ran over to Kasem, grabbing his arm to get his attention. They laughed together, smiling widely.
"But the friends that talk have their waists aligned."
The girl in the cage felt two hands grip her head, and smiled as she moved to place her own over them, but stopped as she touched the pointed horns at the sides of her head.
"You are later and before by yourself."
Together Lien and Kasem both turned as they heard footsteps approach, waving to their friends.
"Oh, you're here, you're here!"
Mei pulled Kaoru up the hill, laughing as they ran to join their friends.
"Drop by and see him."
The two-headed menagerie grinned creepily at its viewers, gripping each other's neck and resting their heads against one another.
"Drop by and see him."
The forest went completely dark, the lamps illuminating the circus shutting off and concealing the tent from daylight.
"Drop by, to the Dark Woods."
Arthur's stagecoach traveled down the cobblestone road, the British man inside it missing the little boy who looked strangely like Alfred but wasn't. Alfred looked out the stagecoach window, eyes searching. Slowly they disappeared.
The sounds of horse drawn carriages, bells, and the crowd around him filled Matthew's ears. He called out into the crowd, but his voice was lost among it. No one seemed to notice him. He turned around as he sensed someone staring at him. He ran over to the person able to see him, the other people throughout the square not able to recognize his existence. It didn't matter since he found someone.
He reached up to the person, tugging at their shirt as his other hand tightly gripping flyers which simply had scribbled in text reading "Welcome to Dark Woods Circus" surrounding a bad drawing of a circus tent. He smiled at them, his red dress and rose headband heightening his cuteness. Suddenly his smiled widened, his eyes narrowing slightly, going from a light purple to a deep, dark red. His cheek showed the mark of a bruise which hadn't been there before.
He was dragged to a tent; the person's grip was strong forcing him onto the stage. He looked up fearfully at the ringmaster. The ringmaster smirked, black eyes hard.
"Be a good boy and maybe we won't hurt you." the voice was accented and dark. Matthew could see the vial in the man's grip and slowly, with tears in his eyes, nodded.
"Good."
His clothes were ripped off and his body was bared to the patrons watching inside and outside the tent.
He was pushed onto his back.
"It's fun."
He laid there on the stage, bare and wide-eyed his hair surrounded his head and his body bruised. The slap to his face stung and throbbed. A shadow came over him and he looked up at the ringmaster. The man tilted his head and leaned down, one hand rested beneath Matthew's chin whist the other rested besides his head and in his hair. He was suddenly kissed, Matthew's eyes scrunched closed. The kiss was almost loving.
It sickened him.
"You are mine."
"So much fun." Matthew smiled hiding his pain.
Ringleader: Kiku(Japan).
Body Guards: Im Sang Kyu and Im Yong-Soo (North Korea and South Korea)
One With Two Heads: Mei and Kaoru (Taiwan and Hong Kong)
Deformed Diva: Lien (Vietnam)
Beast: Kasem (Thailand)
Someone who said to Lien "That'll never happen.": China
Kage: I feel so sick right now; I think I'm going to vomit… (I am in no way, shape, or form trying to insult the Japanese or Korean.)
And this is a true story! (I found the info below after typing Dark Woods Circus into Google and pressed Vocaloid's Dark Woods Circus BASED ON TRUE STORY! (This should be the first thing that pops up but if not I found it on xXTerraXx's Journal in deviantArt.)
In the Edo period of Japan (and after WWI), people sought after pleasures so the demand for "pleasure tents" sprung. The tents would be filled with rare items or whatnot.
But sometimes people would kidnap or buy children and cut off the children's body parts and display them as part of the entertainment. (This is why Kaoru and Mei are stitched together. And it's mentioned that China seemed to have money in his hand, he sold Lien.)
Obviously they couldn't really put a human with an animal part, but what the children had to bear were grotesque. Sometimes they would get acid thrown at their face, get an arm or a leg cut off, have a muscle removed, etc... (This is why I mentioned Lien's face being burned.)
But that's not all - sometimes people would pay to see children be raped.(Which is why I added that part with Lien and Matthew.)
This was all for money.
(Korea also did this to some extent). (This is why I made Korea the body guards)
Why is this not known? First, to see them, you had to look through a small hole, so taking a photo was hard. Second, if you took a photograph, there was a high chance that it was burned. It also wouldn't be surprising for the Japanese government to burn any documents regarding those tent circuses since the government's pretty notorious for trying to cover up those kind of stuff (to those who don't believe this, look up information about the Japanese textbook cover-up about their military's horrible, horrible crimes during the occupation of Asian countries during WWII).
In a way the Japanese did the same as the German's when they were trying to cover up the Holocaust. (I'm not trying to insult the German's either and I apologize.)
Yes I do notice that all the entertainers are the Asian nations (except Matthew(Canada))
Now if you excuse me I'm going to go eat a chocolate/vanilla frosty swirl and cry into my pillow.
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