~Mute's POV~ 

It was cold out as Miko and I were on our way to the Circus to meet up with Ciel and Sebastian. Miko insist she come with me tonight because she still wary about any ambushes that may or may not happen tonight. I didn't want to fight her on it once she made up her mind. 

So many people showed up to watch Noah Arc's Circus perform tonight. Men, women, & children. "Is this circus that big of a deal to gather this many people?" Miko questions while looking among the crowd of people around us. I nod my head in response, telling her yes. If only she was with me the night I snuck out of the house. "There they are." Miko lifts her hand, greeting Ciel and Sebastian were just up ahead waiting beside the entrance for us. "Shall we go inside?" She gives the two gentlemen a kind smile. 

"Ladies first." Sebastian bows. I mentally sigh to myself and follow Miko inside the large tent to find our seats. Inside the tent seemed massive, crowded with so many seats and a ring in the center that is spacious and wide. Miko sits to my left while Ciel sits to my right, and Sebastian sits to Ciel's right. The lights dim and in the center of the ring is the same man I saw that night. Ginger hair, funny clothing, and a skeletal hand. 

"Ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for coming to tonight's performance where we will amaze you all with some of our world's greatest talent performers!" He announces to the crowd. Behind him I can make out of the performers he was talking about making their appearances. Suddenly fire is ignited behind the man, Joker, startling him and having him run off as the lights dim again, and brighten once more to reveal to people swinging from up above. "First up with our Tapeze artist, Peter and Wendy!" 

Wendy is a brunette girl with brown eyes, while Peter is a blonde boy with emerald eyes. They both look to be of the same age, and I don't recall their silhouettes in my vision. Next was a knife thrower, Dagger. A young boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. Another man with gray hair and has the eyes and literally name of a snake, Snake. The Serpent Man. 

"Can you recall any of them from your vision?" Miko whispers to me as her eyes are focused on the performance. I shake my head, no, while closing my eyes. 

"And there are no children here that I can detect, other than the ones who came here with their loved ones." Sebastian adds, invading our conversation. 

"Up next is our Tightrope Walker, Doll!" Joker announces and the lights flash onto a young girl dressed in white walking on a tightrope while slowly doing the splits and backflips. 

"Flexible." Miko comments while arching a brow in amusement. 

"And last but least, the tamer of wild cats, Beast!" Another young woman with black hair and red eyes cracks the whip at her tiger named, Betty, to jump through the ring of fire. Joker once again announce for a volunteer from the crowd for the next act. 

'If there are no children being held here, is it possible they are being kept somewhere else?' I wonder in thought. If that were the case, I would have to get closer. Much closer... I turn my head to Sebastian to see him already looking at me with a hard stare. We are probably thinking the same thing. "I need to get closer." I link my mind to his. He nods his head and stands up from his seat without saying a word. 

The audience is in awe when they see the man in black rise out of his seat. Did he know what I meant when I told him that I needed to get a closer look inspection? But Joker is more than pleased. "The gentleman in the tailcoat looks eager, I say! Come down on stage!" 

The audience once again applauds as Sebastian makes his way down. Ciel, Miko, and I are all a bit surprised by this. He didn't say a word before rising from his seat. I wonder... "What is he doing...?" Miko speaks out loud. Sebastian walks past Joker as he was being given instructions on what to do for this final act. Instead, he knelt down in front of the tiger and started caressing its face. All while complimenting it. 

"Ah, what positively lovely eyes you have. They just absolutely glow." He coes. Of course... Tigers are within the cat family... Miko can't help but laugh as Ciel drops his head into his hands in embarrassment, and while the audience is in complete shock. Everything gets louder when Betty decides to launch herself onto Sebastian by biting the back of his head. 

"Spit him out immediately, Betty!" Beast shouts as she attempts to crack the whip. The end of her whip is caught by Sebastian all while removing himself from Bett's mouth. 

"She has done nothing to earn punishment. I behaved rudely and invaded her privacy." Sebastian apologizes, then begins to lecture of how Beast shouldn't be using a whip to tame Betty. While doing this, Betty decides to attack once more by biting the back of Sebastian's head again. And once more the audience went into a panic. 

Miko couldn't stop laughing as we were making our way out of the performance tent when the show was over. "I wouldn't have thought he would be so brave to approach the feline with pure intentions! Hahaha!" She bends over while holding her stomach as she continues to jest. I lean a bit over her just to see tears beginning to form at the corner of her eyes. Miko continues to cackle and walks beside Ciel, leaving Sebastian and I be ourselves. 

"Excuse me! Hello, sir!" We hear the sound of Joker calling to Sebastian. "I would like to apologize for earlier. The way you tamed that tiger was almost like taming a kitten" He pants. 

"There's no need. I should be the one apologizing." Sebastian reassures him. 

"Are you sure you're alright? I would like our doctor to have and take a look at you just to be sure. You can come with him if you'd like too, if you're worried about your husband, my lady." Joker's expressions softens when his eyes meet mine, then slightly widen when notices me. I instantly glare when he used the word 'husband'. 

This demon and I are not dating or anything. Mate or not, I still don't allow it like I said from the beginning. 

Only because I still don't believe in such a thing. 

Love? I don't know what that is anymore. Desires are another thing. Mate? I don't have the slightest clue what that is supposed to mean. Everything was lost the moment I became what I am today...

I shake my head to correct him. I glance at the corner of my eye and see Miko hiding around the corner of one of the tents with Ciel beside her, before I accompany them. As I walk away, I hear Sebastian say, "If you insist." and Joker leads him further into the campsite where other performers are taking off their costumes, removing their face paint, or carrying equipment as far as I could see. 

"All right then." Miko catches her breath at the same time fox ears appear on her head and a fox tail reveals itself from her tailbone. 

"What are you going to do? I told you there were no children in there from my vision. Sebastian didn't make things any better by having a petting zoo with that tiger." I sulk before taking a step toward her. I thought Sebastian and I had an understanding to which I assumed he was going to do something to gain closer access to the circus, like a distraction, or show off his skills. But not whatever he just did on stage. 

"We didn't see any children during the show, but who's to say we could see children behind the curtain." 

'Another one of your riddles. I get it.' I sigh and turn to Ciel. "Wait for Sebastian until he returns. We're going to investigate further beyond this point." 

"Wait, you're not going to stay and wait for him?" 

"Why would I?" I raise a brow in confusion. "We'll see you again. Let's go, Miko." I turn to her and grab her hand. She smirks at me and nods before I transport us further into the campsite. 

"I hate to say this, but we'll split up from here. We'll rendezvous just near that fence over there." Miko points to a brown fence hiding behind one of the tents set up around the camp. I nod in approval before we part ways. I take my time checking and inspecting each and every tent. No child is in sight. As for going through their belongings, I couldn't find anything other than clothing, extra sheets and blankets, hidden snacks, and newspapers from last week's news. 

Every once in a while, a circus performer would walk by and I would hide myself by blending in with the shadows of the camp. Upon lurking and snooping around, I happen to come across a medical tent where I see Sebastian dodging small knives with the other performers, Joker, Beast, and Dagger. The man with glasses and curly brown hair, who I assume is the doctor, is trying to calm down Dagger from tearing up the tent with his knives. 

'I don't want to know...' I sweat-drop with my thoughts before moving forward with my search. What catches my eye while inspecting one of the tents is a piece of paper sticking out from in between the bedframe. 'What is that...?' I reach for the piece of paper and gently slide it out from in between the frame before I suddenly turn around and swipe at whatever was coming at me. 

My hand caught the wrist of a tall pale man wearing a black long-sleeve shirt with a few of his buttons undone from the neck down to expose his chest, that matched with his black pants all while wearing fancy shoes that any nobleman would wear. But it's his red liquid eyes, noir painted nails, and the horns on his head shaped like the top part of a question mark backwards is what gives him away. He's a demon. "Your senses are sharp." He smirks as he grabs my neck with his other hand and throws me out of the tent I was just in. 

My body skids across the grass while a grunt escapes my throat. Before I can get to my feet, the demon grabs the back of my neck and pins me on my back with his hand now on my throat. His foot presses down on my right shoulder while his other foot is pressed against my other wrist, and his free hand covers my mouth. My only access of oxygen is through my nose. My eyes are wide at the situation I'm in.

Splitting up turned out to be a bad idea. I'm always forgetting about warnings such as this. The warning where I have a target on my head. "I was told that you, little one, is suppose to be the deadliest creature past our kind." His voice is husk, rough, but laced with bloodlust. His grip tightens around my throat, causing me to whimper when I feel his nails dig into my skin. "I find that hard to believe with the way you carry yourself. Wondering around like a lost puppy. Heh. You weren't that hard for me to find."  

His presses harder on my wrist to the point I muffle out a scream. "I've heard all about you. You're able to bend reality whenever you sing, but your songs are like an enchanting spell for demons such as myself." He cackles and releases his foot off my shoulder, only to stomp on it again. Another scream of pain is muffled by the demon's hand. I feel the hand around my throat leave, giving me more air to inhale, and open my eyes to see his black painted nails have sharpened. "Too easy. And unfortunately, you're not my type." I glare before shutting my eyes tight as my wings sprawl out of my back, lifting both me and the demon off the ground. I manage to break myself free from his grip. My black wings sprawl into black tendrils. They lash out to grab the demon in mid-air and hold him in place while I lower myself to the ground with the help of 2 other black tendrils that had extended out from my back.

The demon looks at me with wide eyed before my tendrils rip him in half, then throwing his body parts somewhere beyond the camp. My tendrils retreat into my back afterwards. 'There was only 1, right...?' I'm checking my surroundings thoroughly while I held my shoulder. My nerves are on high alert now. I wasn't expecting an ambush, and now my mind races for a song to sing in case for another. 'What do I sing? What do I sing?' The hairs on the back of my neck stand causing me to spin so fast to where I caught a snake by the neck. 

Its fangs nearly reached my flesh before I pulled it away from my face. The snake had its body wrapped around my arm tightly while I was holding it by its throat. It hissed violently when I began to crush its neck. If I squeezed any more, I wonder what would pop first. The eyes, the brain, or both?

"Don't kill me! Says, Wordsworth." I hear a voice come from in front of me to see the Serpent Man, Snake. "Y-You shouldn't be here in the first place! It's o-off limits!" Snake is translating for his snake. "He meant you no harm, dear! Honest! Please, let him go. Says, Emily." 

My eyes revert back to the snake in my captivity as it continues to squirm and struggle in my hold. Snake is glaring at me as the snakes on his shoulders hiss and rattle. "Oh, there you are! What are you doing? Put that snake down immediately." I hear Miko's voice and footsteps approaching. I kneel down and release the snake as it slithers back to its master. Miko comes to my side and hooks her arms underneath mine. "I told you to wait for me while I said my goodbyes to my colleges. Please forgive my sister. I'm afraid wandering off happens to be one of her favorite hobbies." 

"It's alright, but she shouldn't be wondering in these parts. They are off limits. Her reflexes are sharp though. Wordsworth meant her no harm. He only wonders why such a young lady was wandering around by herself. Says, Emily." Snake translates as the green snake on his left shoulder hisses. 

"You should keep a closer eye on if you don't want anything to happen to her! You got it?! Says, Wordsworth." Snake translates for the snake on his right shoulder, Wordsworth. 

"Of course. I suppose she had gotten lost and tried to find her way back. I appreciate you finding her before I had to call authorities." Miko smiles, and a glint shines in Snake's eyes as if she had just threatened him. "Well, we'll be on our way then. Goodnight, sir." Having said that, we take our leave from the campgrounds and head home. We'll discuss what we've uncovered from tonight. 

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It's been 4 months... I have no words -_-"