Calypso:

My name is Calypso and I'm one of the White Face Clowns in the entertainment group Black Parade... and later today I'm gonna get my advancement in the hierarchy and become a Harlequin.

Right now we're performing for the locals, the payment is not that great but it's publicity, which The Ringmaster is very fond of.

My job as a White Face Clown is very simple, supporting the main actors and the master anyway I can. Today the master's not here either nine out of the ten Jesters or Harlequin's, but as long as there's one the show must go on. And I have to do my best to support them in the long run.

"Now, now ... ladies and gentlemans, monsters and creeps and killers and crackheads and a lot more shit that I'm not gonna spell out loud. For our last attraction we have a match. A death match if you will, we managed to capture a wild beast with seven heads, each of them spitting a different type of magic. Intriguing isn't it?" The Jester said.

A death match, we're doing it but very rarely and it's usually before something big happens, to determine someone's worth. I've seen it before and if my speculations are right...

"Who's gonna fight this beast you say? None other than our upcoming and rising star CALYPSO, please give her a round of applause"

*Applauses*

It's time to take the scene.

"Thank you, thank you, now please Calypso my dear do your best, you know what this match means right?" He said aloud, as for the entire audience to hear.

...

"Good, silence is a virtue, means you're ready." *Ahem* "Now everyone please let's watch this fantastic entertainment moment. We will witness now the beginning of a beast struggling in their own cage... a cage made by their own hands. How will the story end? Who's gonna be the winner, well all we can do is enjoy."

He said as he started leaving the stage, but he stopped on his way to whisper something to me. "Do your best, little nymph." And then he was off.

This was one of my only interactions with The Jester: Osman.

The beast I'm fighting is now free and it's ugly seven heads are looking straight at me, trying to figure out my power.

Not looking for long the beast jumped and one of its seven heads shot lava at me, but I dodged.

I didn't get where I am right now by being weak and now it's time to demonstrate my prowess.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

I screamed, my magic is sound related, and what I did just now is something called Vertigo Inducement. Trying to make the beast lose balance and feel dizzy, after all it would be a total shame if this ends too fast...

But the beast is not stopping... is it deaf?

*Tch*

Another head launched at me lightning while the other one started freezing the ground.

This is getting bad.

"Oh what's this? Are you struggling little nymph? You better not disappoint us, after all, the Ringmaster is waiting for you after this."

That little cunt is taunting me... fine you want a demonstration of power, I'll show you a demonstration of power.

Hyper Acceleration... by manipulating the sound waves I managed to outspeed the ice and now I'm standing behind the beast, ready to hit it with a black... Shit

One of its heads has a pair of eyes behind, and the beast's reaction speed is...

*Thump*

... Fast

*Cough*

It started running at me... I need to do something. It can't hear me so the sound itself is not really useful...

"Burn!" I said aloud, giving an order to the molecules in the air, if I accelerate them to the point of ignition then the beast should burn. I just need to control it so it doesn't reach me.

But it didn't stop... after the air exploded and it started burning the arena it kept charging at me, one of its heads shooting water right around it.

This is getting ridiculous... I guess there's no other choice. I need to create a black hole. Manipulating sound at over 1.100db should... it's an imitation of gravitation magic but it should work.

"The air quivers." I said aloud going over the 1.100db limit, normally this should kill the spectators but there's a protective barrier between us always, one but by our master so it should be strong enough to... but the black hole didn't come.

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The beast used a quantum blast to annihilate the moment when the black hole started to form.

...I'm getting sick and tired of this conveniently placed monster.

Accelerating my whole body again I went behind and struck it with my fist, if magic doesn't work then it's time to get physical. I might be a nymph, I might be a lady but I'm not to be underestimated.

The beast is sent flying to the other side... and it's struggling to get up. Now it's my chance.

Releasing soundwaves into the ground I made it unstable and accelerating my own molecules I set my arm on fire and struck the beast right through its chest. Putting an end to this miserable fight.

It sure was a tough fight, but I did it... but the audience doesn't cheer for me... The Jester is not announcing my victory either...

I'm tired... that shit got a few good hits on me and I used a good portion of my magic today and on top of that I had to give up my own hand.

"What matters is that I passed, and now I get to become one of them..."

*Clap* *Clap*

"Well congratulations my dear, you indeed passed."

That's... the Ringmaster.

I immediately took a kneeling pose.

"It's good to see you, Ringmaster, Ragnarok." I said with humility, bowing before him.

"Get up and look at me." He demanded.

And so I did, looking straight into his red hellish eyes.

"Look where your magic brought you, you should've spent more time learning a bit of diversity. If you knew the basics of fire magic then you wouldn't need to burn your hand from inside out." He said as he grabbed my hand and uplifted it along with my body.

"It... it hurts, please stop."

"You even got your suit ruined." He said almost disappointed, letting go of my hand and turning around.

Silence overtook us, strangely enough the audience didn't say anything either, they were just watching us. But I couldn't let them, our rule is the show must go on.

So I got up and prepared to give a speech.

"Thank you everyo..."

But he stopped me.

"Stop, answer me, how does a rebellion start?"

Huh?

A strange feeling started to overtake me, the pressure emanating from Ragnarok was stronger than usual, he moved his head to look at me and I instinctively took more than one step backwards.

"You don't know? Well let me tell you, every dream of rebellion starts with a spark."

Why's he telling me all this, and why does he look so scary.

He then turned his whole body around. Behind him there was the door from which light came, the door from which he came, and around him there was nothing but blood from me and the beast.

It is a horror scenery.

"You did good today, you defeated the beast I specifically brought in to give you a hard time, but you proved your worth. Congrats."

He said while closing his eyes and smiling.

"Thank... Thank you. So does this mean that I..."

And he did it again.

"But... you've gone so far right that you're wrong... You know I could stir you up for fun but I'm getting sick and tired of your pretending already."

...

"What... What do you mean? I dedicated my life to you, to The Black Parade. I didn't betray you."

"Who said anything about a betrayal, dear?"

... Shit

...

"Nymph, you were allied with the demons, yet you deserted them because you didn't want to be a sex worker and instead you became a warrior and joined us. How intriguing is that. You had potential, unfortunately your incompetence made you unable to realize the true nature of my power."

This is bad... if this is going into the direction I think it's going then I won't be making out of this alive.

"Calypso, mother to a child made with an angel. Isn't that wonderful? You, a nymph, under the demon's command betrayed your planet and alliance and joined us. But before that you met a man, you had a child with him, and both of you started wandering the world along with your child because of the shame he brought by just having sex with a lowlife like you."

"HOW DARE YOU!" I said getting ready to attack, but he burned my already burned hand again, just by looking at it... with blue flames.

I got down again, it hurts, it hurts like hell.

"In exchange for getting back into the nice city of angels you got instructed to infiltrate us and leak information, am I wrong?" He asked mockingly... he already knows the answer

Ragnarok, leader of The Black Parade and one of the key members from The End. Curses

"No answer? Well you know I already know I mean, when you joined our forces you already sold your soul to ME." He started laughing, uncontrollably so, putting his right hand over his eyes.

And he just kept laughing for a while, giving me enough time to heal a bit so that I'm able to listen to him completely.

"You see, I can see your soul, I saw it from the beginning and yet I still let you in. I knew you were a traitor and I still let you in, you know why? Because I purely don't care, there's nothing you can DO to stop me from achieving my goal. THERE'S NOTHING ANY OF YOU CAN DO."

Right now he looks like a maniac, in front of the audience nonetheless. His eyes wide open and his bloodlust set free.

"Are you sure you want to do this in front of the audience?" I asked.

"Oh, so thoughtful of you, unfortunately, you'll have to take a better look at the audience."

At that point the light started to shine on the audience and…

...

"YOU BASTARD!" I started charging towards him, tears in my eyes, screaming, filled with rage to the brim, how could he, how could he do this to me.

But he stopped me with a burning fist to my stomach.

"You don't like the audience? After I spent so much time hunting down... each... and every... member of your god forsaken family and friends ... even your kid ... and your husband, they are all here right now... CORPSES BROUGHT HERE TO WATCH YOUR DEMISE."

He whispered that in my ear, laughing while doing so ... I saw them, my parents, my family, my child, my husband, everyone I ever cared about, even some friends. They are all here... half of their skin is missing, the eye sockets burned... each of their hands holding their lifeless eyes...

*Crying*

"Don't cry now... you already knew Loyalty Is The First Law Of God... but the only god present here is ME." He said while sitting down in front of me and looking at my crying face.

...

"I'll do you a favor for the sake of the time we spent together and make it fast."

"Please stop, please I beg you, please..."

But no matter how much I begged, his hand was approaching. I want to run... but I can't get up... I want to cry... but my tears are burning before they can get down on my cheeks.

His hand caught my face and lifted me up in the air.

I can feel it... it hurts... it burns... IT BURNS.

He let me mouth free so I can scream, he's enjoying it... the last thing I saw before my eyes were covered was his evil smile.

"STOP, STOP, IT HURTS, STOP I CAN'T SEE, MY EYES, MY EYES, MY HEAD IS HOT IS BURNING IS HOT STOP STOP STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"

...

Ragnarok:

"Was this really necessary?" Caera asked me, she was watching the whole massacre going down.

"She's just a toy, always has been, always will be, well now she's nothing anymore, her face along with everything above her head is not even there anymore."

...

"I know you don't like the way I handled it Caera... but if you're looking for a villain... shoot the traitor."