The circus
This is my attempt at a scary story, I hope you all like it ^^
Days like this didn't come by often...but when they did, ooohhoho when they did, they were the best of days. The circus was in town! I always enjoyed the circus...you know, fattening food, a few games, in this particular circus they even had a few theme park rides! I even enjoyed the clowns...I never really saw anything scary about them, just some fur with too much make-up, a red nose, and some silly, rather colorful, hair...at least...that's what I used to think....
You see this time the circus was a bit different. When I pulled up in their usual parking lot after work, a few things were...off, to say the least. The sign was dingy and the lights were flickering, even the "D" was falling off of the sign, wait, the D? I took a moment to read the sign cocking my head a bit "The Circus of Death" ....this had to be a joke...or maybe a different circus...usually the sign said "Angelous fun in the sun circus" and would have a happy little cartoon sun and what not....now replaced with what looked like a severed head...the art was amazing...almost too good, I had to look away the site making me sick. It didn't help that the smell of the park was vile. I couldn't quite match any other smell with it though. Almost as if it DID smell of death, whoever designed this park was damn good at their job.
Whether out of curiosity or just stupidity I decided to walk in...I heard the screams of pups from the rides so I wasn't too uneasy walking in...however when I waltzed in past the empty ticket booth I didn't see any rides...nor parents...it was all empty. All accept for this one tent, cheery circus music and flashing lights came from the inside, but there was a "Do not enter" sign posted near the entrance, it had fake blood splattered on it and I found it hard to even stare at THAT for long, I have a fairly weak stomach when it comes to innards. Now...any normal fur would just turn around and walk out....but...I couldn't help but explore more. It was all SO fascinating, and though the ambiance was a step short from terrifying, my curiosity took over.
I took a few steps into the tent, immediately getting the chills. My nose and ears twitched as a breeze of cold air and that awful smell came over me. I held my tail, now getting a bit more scared than curious...I took a few more steps and a loud screech made me jump. That was it...nope nope nope. I turned straight around and.....and hit a brick wall...LITERALLY...confused, scared, and now a little disoriented I started to breath heavier and I scrambled up from the floor looking left and right as if I were going to find somefur that had set the wall there. I brushed some dirt off myself and immediately grabbed my tail again, like I would as a kitten.
This wasn't good at all, I was trapped in a tent blocked by a...a brick WALL...the music slowly faded, as did the lights, and a chuckling arose from further inside the tent. I took a moment to study and scratch at the tent walls...they were solid as well...all out of options I slowly stepped into the tent further and as quiet as I could, taking my time as the dim lit room came into view. I came out of the entrance of the tent and saw I was at the top row of the seating arrangement for the tent. All surrounding a good sized stage with a dirt floor...and....a black wolf in a mostly burnt up clown costume, chuckling in the center of it all...his make-up was splattered on, and the nose was half torn...a-along with part of his...his nose. I bent over and vomited as he turned toward me, not only was it part of his nose missing but most of his face was missing, his yellow rotting teeth showing, his eyeball half out of his skull with maggots crawling around inside of it, his ear torn basically in half, and blood oozing from pretty much all of it.
As I looked up from vomiting he was no longer in the center stage but right in front of me, staring me directly in the eyes with his one, still intact, completely black eye. He sniffed a bit and a smile grew on his fave as I let out a small sob and held back more vomit. "Whats the matter Geoff? Don't you think I look FUNNY?? Didn't the crash make me look FUNNY??!!" the wolf barked in my face, some blood going directly onto my muzzle along with half burnt fur falling from him. I cried out and fell backward trying to crawl back down the hallway "GO AWAY!" I yelped out. The wolf chuckled his disgusting creepy laugh again and raised a claw he swung it down toward me and I immediately looked away and squeezed my eyes shut. I felt and heard nothing afterward...as I slowly peeked back out he was gone...
I stood up quivering and grasping my tail still, I scanned the place and stood in the same spot for nearly 10 minutes before deciding to look for a way out. I slowly made my way to the other side of the tent where there was another hallway I crept down it constantly looking behind me. It became lighter and before I knew it I was out of the tent....there were other....other things....laughing and having a good time....they smelled and sounded normal but....they were....I don't know. They were furless...and there muzzles were pressed in so far...accept for this little thing poking out of their faces...they flared like nostrils when the beings took in breaths. They were different colors like us but they seemed more limited in such ways, as I looked around I noticed none of them had tails. I soon noticed they were all staring at me...even the ones that were turned away had their necks bent all the way around to glare at me including one that looked young, with a red balloon in its distorted, hairless paw...one of them let out a screech and began running...no...sprinting at me...it was a bit slow still and I knew I could outrun it but...I-I...I couldn't...I couldn't run...no, NO this wasn't happening I just...oh god it was getting so much closer...I just closed my eyes again and sobbed....
Once again nothing happened...though this time when I opened my eyes I was in a hospital bed...tubes and what not connected to me. I yipped and my eyes darted around, though something was weird...i couldn't see out of one of my eyes. when I tried to move I felt a massive pain almost everywhere...both my legs were in casts along with my left arm, I couldn't see out of my...left eye it looked like and I could barely move my jaw. A cheetah nurse darted in at the sight of me "Hey hey! Its ok, you're in the hospital! You've had an accident. Do you remember anything?" I slowly shook my head and whimpered a bit and so she continued. She told me that I had gotten in a car crash in front of the circus, I hit the car of one of the clowns that was in the circus, he had some helium in the passenger seat of the car that lit on fire and exploded after my car hit the passenger side head on, half his body was lit on fire and he was trapped. For about 15 minutes he cried and struggled before he passed out and 18 minutes before he was actually dead...Ignoring all the pain I forced out the question I was terrified to ask "W-what did...he look like?" My heart sank at her answer...a mid aged black wolf....
After a little more conversation and a check up from my very nice dragon doctor they let me sleep. "Oh, if you need to use the restroom just press the little button on your bed and we'll wheel you to it, just right there" The nurse pointed toward the button then toward the restroom positioned right next to me. I forced a smile and nodded a bit then closed my eyes resting...I woke up at about midnight to my dark room, something was off but I was half asleep and didn't really care, I quickly woke up after a few seconds however to a weird sound coming from the bathroom....the sound of....ch-chuckling...It stopped for only a moment just for me to hear this: "I'm gonna make you suffer Geoff...." There was one more hysterical laugh and then......
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