The Cirque Du Freak Diaries: Book Two

We were all gathered at one table. Darren, Mr. Crepsley, Vanez, Kurda, Arra, Gavner, Yuna, Emma, and me.

" What happens if we fail?" I asked bravely.

" If you fail, you both will be taken to the Hall of Death and be dropped onto the stakes until you are dead." Kurda answered.

" Christ," Emma said as she looked at Kurda.

" But we all have a feeling you two will make it."

" But that doesn'treally help that you just told oursister we will be staked multiple times till we're dead, does it? Tiny could sabotageus again." Darren pointed out.

" Can I cut the necklaceinto smaller pieces so I can make rings out of them?" Emma asked Rose.

" Sure," Rose told her. " That is a smart idea."

" Are you sure?"

" I gave that to you to protect you. I don't mind if it has to be cut into piece's to protect people that are close to you."

Emma took the knife that was beside of her, took her necklaceoff and cut two one inch piece's off.

The sound of the knife hitting the table made some of our friends jump, and the others curse.

Ater that, Emma took the small roleof ducktape out of herleft back pocket, cut some piece's off, and covered the chain.

" You two are going to put this inside of your pockets, and I am going to sow them closed before your trial."

" That was a smart idea." Vanez pointed out. " But next time, warn us before you start chopping."

He was one of the few that cursed.

Emma smirked as she fixed her chain.

I heardKurda'sheart speed up. He liked Emma.

But something was off about him, and I knew Emma and Darren could fell it to.

" Where did you get that scar on your neck from?" Arra asked.

Emma's hair was pulled back into a pony-tail, like Arra's. and when Emma turned her head to the left to pick up her tape she had tried to put back in her pocket up.

" A pasture." She answered.

" We used to go to church with our parents," Darren said. " When everyone had been outside talking, Emma noticed she had left her jacket inside and went to get it."

" That creep of a pasture tried to kidnap me," Emma started. " I foughtback and run, but he caught me and tried to knock me out with some chloroform, and in the struggle, my left wing popped out and he tried to cut it off, but instead he clipped the back of my neck instead. Someone finally heard me scream and came to the rescue, beating the piece of sh*t almost to death."

Everyone at the table grew quiet. They didn't know what to say.

" And that's how they met me," I said, finishing the story. " It turned out the bitch was putting children into sex slavery. Of course, I got into trouble with the police for beating her up, but I really didn't care. Their parents ended up bailing me out."

" You guys can ask us questions, it's fine," Emma said.

" You had a women preacher at your church?" Gavner asked.

" Yes, She had just moved to our neighborhood," Darren said. " We had seen on the news that kids were vanishing across the world, and the police thought it was a serial killer, but they never found the bodies."

" How old were you?" Arra asked.

" All three of us were sixteen when it happened." I told them.

" That's not all of our messed up, crazy stories," Emma told them. " You want to hear more? This one will make you laugh."

" If you want to." Kurda said.

" They don't bother us." Darren said.

" Tell them about that fight you started with that gang leader." Emma told me.

" Gang leader?" Vanez asked.

" Our neighborhood was nice, by day, but turned into Gotham at night."

" Gotham?" Yuna asked.

" The fictional city that Batman protects."

" Who's Batman?"

We told her about him, then about the other characters in the DC and Marvel Universe.

" You can control, water, right?" Yuna asked Emma.

" And fire." Darren pointed out.

" Can you show me a few tricks?"

" Guess it wouldn't hurt," I said. " Anyway, this took place seven weeks after the preacher incident. So we're walking down the street at night when a group of six guys walked up to us."

Emma took her hand and raised it up, causing the water in her cup to shoot up in the air.

" They asked if we had been the ones that beat up their buddy, who had harassed one of the girls that went to out school, Steve, the hero admits to it, then punches the guy square in the face, knocking him out cold."

The water froze in the air, causing it to warn into an ice sickle, and hit the table when she said I hit the guy in the face and knocked him out cold.

" Then, we proceeded to kick everyone's ass and started walking home. We only found out he was the leader of a local gang the next day at school when we were jumped in the hallway by two guys while we were walking to class. I got a knife to the back, so did Darren, but the puncture wasn't as deep as mine was. The ones who stabbed us were beaten within half of their lives by Steve, then a girl that was walking down the hallway screamed and alerted everyone. Darren and I were taken to the hospital while Steve was questioned. One good thing came out of it, we or anyone else were ever bugged by those assholes again."

" You three are deadly together." Gavner commented.

" More than ever now." I said.

" How many of these trials are we going to go through?" Darren asked. " I could tell from your expression that there was more than one, Mr. Crepsley."

"There are many trials you can pick," Mr. Crepsley said. " But you will only be tasked to complete five of them. There is a bag that you will be picking out of to determine which ones you will be completing, one by one. You will be starting your first one tonight, you will have the day to rest, then go one to do your second one, and so on and so forth, so I advise you try not to injure yourself too badly, you would only have a day to recover."

" You forgot the tutoring sessions, Larten." Arra pointed out.

Darren, Emma and I looked at her.

" You will be given a day, counting day and night to practice your trial," Arra added. " Then a day to recover. Tomorrow, you will go draw your trial and that day will be spent with one of us, telling you how to complete it and walking you through it. This technique was brought up by Seba Niles because you two are only half-vampires. It hasn't been used in over a thousand years. One of us will be your tutor for your five trials."

" They get a day of practice of rest, then the next night they to their trial?" Emma asked.

" Correct. You will be called in today to pick your trial."

" Will both of us do the same trial?" Darren asked.

" That has not been decided yet."

" Then we have time for more stories," I said. " How about you guys tell us some of yours? It's only fair."

" How about the time Larten asked Arra to be his mate?" Vanez asked.

" I do not think they want to hear that." Mr. Crepsley said, then looked at us.

" He's right, we don't." Darren said, then looked at us.

The Cirque Du Freak Diaries: Book Two - Chapter 21 (2024)

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