"No, we haven't looked up in the stands."
[Taru]
Turning around to see a shocked Cherish screaming at her seat the crowd begins to cheer.
"Sorry if that startled you all, but after the Uki ran away I had to figure something else out for lunch."
[Jiga]
"How did you do that?"
[Cherish's Father, embracing Cherish with a loving hug]
"We can not tell you. It is after all a Magician's spell. Which is to be kept a secret you know."
[Weiso, with a smirk]
"Either way, thank you for making sure she was safe."
[Cherish's Father]
"On to our next trick."
[Weiso]
"We need three more volunteers."
[Jiga, with his mouth full of Chire]
With no hesitation the crowd begins to raise their hands once again cuing and hollering for attention. Three attendants were chosen at random, this time including Crystal. The Triplets line up the three attendants, each behind them. With a wave of their staffs & wands three boxes appear to the front of them all.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, are you ready for our last act of the night!?"
[Jiga]
"We will be making these three lovely volunteers disappear."
[Taru]
"Please step forward into the boxes."
[Weiso]
"This should be fun."
[Volunteer 1]
"I wonder where we will be sent."
[Volunteer 2]
Being worried about what may happen, Crystal turns back and sends a signal to the others. Understanding her que, they prepare for the worst. With Taru closing her box Crystal sits now in pitch black.
"Now for the chant."
[Jiga]
"Tira Mitisimo"
[Weiso]
"Let's see what happened."
[Weiso]
Opening the box, with a shrike from the crowd, we see nothing but bones within.
"What happened to them!?"
[Carnival Attendant 8]
"It looks like they died in there?"
[Carnival Attendant 12]
"How's that even possible, they were barely in there for even a second."
[Carnival Attendant 8]
"Do not worry everyone. We get this all the time. Weiso you probably said the wrong chant"
[Jiga]
"I did not."
[Weiso]
"Either way, are those people okay?"
[Attendant 5]
"Yes, watch!"
[Weiso, reapproaching the boxes]
Closing the boxes once again Weiso tries the return chant. Reopening the boxes to see no change.
"Hmm this is very awkward. It seems I can't get them back."
[Weiso]
"Maybe if we feed, I mean send more people so we can get them back."
[Taru]
"FEED!"
[Carnival Attendant 12]
"What do you mean feed?"
[Carnival Attendant 8]
"I didn't mean to say that, we are just doing a magic trick here. Please stay calm."
[Taru]
"So maybe the rumors are true."
[Carnival Attendant 5]
"We should get out of here, this has nothing to do with us."
[Carnival Attendant 10]
As the attendants make their way towards the exit. They are astonished to find that the doors have disappeared.
"THE DOORS ARE GONE!"
[Carnival Attendant 10]
"Gone?"
[Carnival Attendant 8]
"Oh we forgot to mention, until the show is complete they do not reappear."
[Jiga]
"Then complete the show, get those people back, and let us out of here!"
[Carnival Attendant 12]
"We can't do that."
[Taru]
"Can't do that?! What do you mean you can't do that?!"
[Carnival Attendant 10]
"Well our pet mimics here are hungry, if you couldn't tell."
[Weiso, grinning ear to ear]
"Mimics? What are those?"
[Carnival Attendant 8, as the boxes begin to snarl and transform]
"Don't worry, you won't be alive much longer."
[Weiso]
"This won't take long, and it's painless."
[Taru]
Like well trained hounds the mimics begin to move on the attack. Clamping its fangs on to the leg of a panic and fleeing Attendant the first Mimic tossing him back and forth. Blood splatters over the other panicked Attendants as his leg full severs. Swallowing the limb the Mimic begins to make what sounds like a giggle, as it approaches the attendant consuming their head.
"Is that thing laughing?"
[Cherish Father]
"We..we..we have to get out of here."
[Cherish, as the second Mimic approaches]
"We're going to be next if we don't move then"
[Cherish Father, shaking his daughter to pay attention]
Cherish begins to scream as the Mimic leaps from the base of the arena into the stands, devouring her father next to her. Leaving nothing but his severed arm holding on to hers.
"Hel…HELP!"
[Cherish, screams]
Naraku and Miike begin to race to save her. Instead, watching as the third Mimic, licking its lips, takes a slow consumption of her. As it pulls back you see nothing but her feet left behind. The two Mimics then begin to fight over what is left.
"We..We have to get these people out of here."
[Miike]
"What about Crystal?"
[Obitiga]
"Right now these people are of a higher priority, and we have to hope she isn't actually dead."
[Naraku, getting closer to the base of the arena]
"EVERYONE! Please get behind us."
[Naraku]
Creating a small circle of the four of them, they begin to defend the attendants as best they could. With arrows flying from both Obitiga and Naraku the Mimics were kept at bay.
"Do you people really think you can save yourselves?"
[Taru]
"Who knows but we can at least die trying!"
[Miike, as he attempts to attack one of the Triplets]
Unable to succeed he is met with the jaws of a Mimic.