"I heard your friends were coming to the show today." Asher-the ring leader and co founder- said to me as I was doing my stretches before the show.
I looked up to the orange, spiky haired man. Like usual he had on his brown suit with matching shoes and blue sunglasses.
"Yeah I hope that's not a problem. They are paying half. I can spot them the other half." I replied.
"No, no, no. It's just that you've never brought friends here before. Even when-"
"They'll be here soon so I should probably go out front. At the very least I can jazz up the customers." I said moving to leave.
"Genji!" Asher called.
I turned back and he held out a small stereo to me.
"I wasn't thinking about what I was saying. I'm sorry." he apologized.
"It's okay. You didn't mean it." I said taking the stereo. "So what music is in here?"
"Move your body by Eiffel 65." he answered with a small smile spreading across his face.
"Awesome. But sometimes I think you chose that song just so you can watch a bunch of girls dance around." I joked.
"Della always said I was a bit of an odd ball." he replied laughing.
I laughed as well on my way outside. I made my way through the other performers and the customers until I made it to the ticket booth.
"Hey Marg. They show up yet?" I asked the small woman with gigantic glasses that made her eyes look huge and frizzy yellow hair.
"Nope. They've yet to arrive." she answered.
"Knowing them they'll show up fashionably late. Anyway tell me when they show up 'kay?"
"Course dear."
I nodded then walked onto the fringe of things. Once I got to a nice spot I put the stereo down and pulled out the three juggling balls hidden in my back pocket. Then I hit play.
*When the song first began I started with simple juggling tricks. As the song went on the tricks got more and more complicated. After that I started adding flips and other acrobatic tricks to the sequence. Customers that were waiting in the short line watched with rapt attention. Conner and Kase- two of the younger performers- grabbed their juggling gear and joined in. It didn't take long for the customers to get rattled up. Everyone was clapping and the children were laughing and giggling. We let the children join in at different points in the mini show and they all had a blast. Once the song finally finished everyone applauded and we took our bows.
As people started moving through the lines again some gave a tip for our pre-performance.
"We'll take the stereo back inside." Connor said.
"Cause it looks like your friends are here." Kase said as they took their leave.
I looked around and found seven familiar faces. I cart wheeled over and said, "Welcome to Circus Della Wonders." bowing.
"Show off." the twins mumbled.
"That was amazing Genji!" Tamaki exclaimed.
"Thank you." I answered.
"If that was a reflection of what your show will be like today then I'm quite looking forward to it." Kyouya said.
"Well we yearn to please at Circus Della Wonders." I replied. "Speaking of which, I better go and mingle with the other customers. We wouldn't want anyone to feel excluded."
With that I somersaulted off.
The line was half way through when I went to the back of the tent and changed for the show. A few minutes after Darcy came in to the dressing room.
"You ready?" she asked.
"Yep." I answered throwing on my hat. "How do I look?"
"Like a female Clopin. Now come on the shows starting."
I nodded and rushed past her.
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"The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" Tamaki questioned.
"Yes. That's what the flier said the show was." Kyouya answered.
Just then the lights dimmed around them.
"SHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It's starting." Honey hushed.
**Just then a soft music played. Then majestic, bold, and loud music roared as the set was flashed with an array of lights. The lights showed a towers and a church with a tight rope high in the air.
After that the music quieted to a twinkling as a girl came out on a ball. Amazingly she kept her balance as rolled out to the center stage atop it. She was dressed in a joker's outfit of purple and golden yellow. Her face was painted white with purple lips and thick black eyeliner around her bright green eyes.
"It's Genji." Haruhi exclaimed.
And then she began to sing,
"Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the baker man bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame"-village people of all sorts began to come out from the shadows and dance to the song.
"To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a psalm"-now performers fell from above attempting wonderful sequences from red ribbons.
"And some say the soul of the city's
The toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame"-at this point she addresses the audience and a small puppet in similar dress falls from above and floated next to her.
"Listen, they're beautiful, no?
So many colors of sound, so many changing moods
Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves"
"They don't?" said the puppet in a high squeaky voice.
"No, silly boy.
Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower
lives the mysterious bell ringer.
Who is this creature?"
"Who?" repeated the puppet appearing on the opposite side of her.
"What is he?"
"What?" repeated the puppet appearing on the opposite side of her again.
"How did he come to be there?
"How?" repeated the puppet appearing on the opposite side of her.
"Hush, and Clopin will tell you
It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster."
There was a flash of bright white light then all the other performers were gone. The set was washed over with a blue light and the only performers on stage were the Clopin character and five others that looked like peasants in a boat. The boat rolled out looking as if it was actually sailing.
Genji continued with her song,
"Dark was the night when our tale was begun
On the docks near Notre Dame,"
"Shut it up, will you!" said the man rowing the boat.
"We'll be spotted!" said a man with a large mustache and bigger hat.
"Hush, little one." said a delicate beautiful woman dressed like a gypsy.
Once again Genji's voice was dominate,
"Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
The docks near Notre Dame."
"Four guilders for safe passage into Paris." demanded the rower as they all got out.
"But a trap!" cried Genji as an arrow was shot at the gypsies. "Had been laid for the gypsies
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
At a figure whose clutches
Were iron as much as the bells"
"Judge Claude Frollo" gasped the mustached man in horror as a dark, tall figure approached them.
The figure rode a horse and was surrounded by half a dozen guards.
"The bells of Notre Dame" Genji sang.
"Kyrie Eleison..." sang an invisible chorus.
Genji continued with a grave look on her face,
"Judge Claude Frollo longed
To purge the world
Of vice and sin"
"Kyrie Eleison" sang the chorus again.
Genji continued,
"And he saw corruption
Ev'rywhere
Except within"
"Bring these gypsy vermin to the palace of justice." ordered Frollo.
"You there, what are you hiding?" questioned one of the guards to the woman.
"Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her." drolled Frollo.
"She ran." Genji said in a wispy voice.
The young woman ran with Frollo behind her as the chorus sang,
"Dies irae, dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum sibylla
Quantus tremor est futurus
Quando Judex est venturus"
At this point the woman had climbed up the tall poles to the tight rope and Frollo had dismounted his horse to climb after her. The woman went to the center of the rope and banged at the church doors screaming, "Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary"
Frollo had caught up with her and she tried to run but he grabbed her by the arm. They struggled and Frollo shoved her away pulling the item wrapped up in cloth from her. The woman fell from the rope as the audience gasped. When she fell she fell into a red hoop and hung there dramatically as if she was dead.
"A baby?" Frollo questioned examining the item wrapped in the cloth. Then he gasped and cringed in disgust. "A monster!"
Frollo looked around then-as his spot light turned red- he held the child over the edge of the rope as if he were to drop it.
As his grip loosened and he was about to completely let go there was a loud, "Stop!"
"Cried the Archdeacon" Genji narrated.
"This is an unholy demon.
I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs." Frollo explained.
"See there the innocent blood you have spilt
On the steps of Notre Dame" the Archdeacon sang as he motioned to the woman daggling from the hoop.
"I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued." Frollo defended.
"Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
On the steps of Notre Dame" the Archdeacon scolded.
"My conscience is clear." Frollo reiterated.
"You can lie to yourself and your minions
You can claim that you haven't a qualm
But you never can run from
Nor hide what you've done from the eyes
The very eyes of Notre Dame..." the Archdeacon sang dramatically.
"Kyrie Eleison" the chorus sang.
'And for one time in his life
Of power and control," Genji sang.
"Kyrie Eleison" the chorus repeated.
"Frollo felt a twinge of fear
For his immortal soul." Genji continued.
"What must I do?" Frollo said shaken.
"Care for the child, and raise it as your own." the Archdeacon answered.
"What? I'd be settled with this misshapen...?" Frollo began."Very well. Let him live with you, in your church."
"Live here? Where?" The Archdeacon questioned.
"Anywhere," Frollo answered.
"Just so he's kept locked away
Where no one else can see
The bell tower, perhaps
And who knows, our Lord works in mysterious ways
Even this foul creature may
Yet prove one day to be
Of use to me..."
Genji continued on with her narration from her spot on the ground.
"And Frollo gave the child a cruel name
A name that means half-formed, Quasimodo
Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?" at this point the chorus joined Genji. "Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells of Notre Daaaaaaaaaaame!"
As the music continued to a dramatic close fireworks and a flurry of lights showed the stage. When the song ended with the thunder of a drum everything went dark.
The audience began to applaud loudly. The host club however sat the stunned for a moment.
Tamaki was the first to break their silence with, "AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!"
The host club then joined the rest of the audience in their applause.
"Wow. Genji's voice is amazing." Hikaru mused.
"I know." replied Kaoru.
The clapping died down as the story continued. And the host club watched with rapped attention.
A/N:
To get the gist of what the music was like play these videos at the parts where you see the appropriate *s. For The Bells of Notre Dame imagine that Clopin's voice is a teenage girl's. ;3
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUx_rpG1XGo&feature=rec-HM-rn
** http://www.viddler.com/explore/waifine/videos/1/
"Why do the twins want to see me?" I asked Haruhi.
"I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you locked them in a rat infested warehouse." she answered.
"Oh come on. That was over a week ago." I reasoned as we walked to the third music room.
"Well you've locked them in a whole bunch of other places since then."
I smiled to myself thinking of all the fun I've had messing with the host club. It was just yesterday that I trapped them all in their own music room.
"Yeah. That was fun." I mumbled. 
"Well I'd be careful because one of these days they might just break." she warned opening the door to the third music room.
As the door was pulled open there was a flurry of rose petals. What was up with that seriously?
"Haruhi it's nice to-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tamaki screamed when he saw me and hid behind the couch he was at. "STAY AWAY ME!!!!!" 
"Nice to see you too Tamaki." I said. 
"Genji over here!" Hikaru called.
I walked over to the table he was at with his brother. They were alone. That was surprising I thought they would have customers like everyone else.
"So why did you want to talk to me?" I asked them.
"Please sit." said Kaoru pulling out a chair for me.
"Um...thanks..." I said hesitantly sitting down.
"Here, have a piece of cake." Hikaru said serving me a piece of cake.
"And have some tea." Kaoru then poured me some tea.
I sat there stunned. What was going on? 
"Go on. Eat it." Kaoru whispered into my ear.
"Drink it, Princess." Hikaru whispered into my other ear.
Princess!?! What had gotten into these idiots?
"Will you eat it if I feed it to you Princess?" Hikaru asked lifting a fork full to my mouth.
"Hiiikaruuu..." Kaoru whined.
"Don't worry I'll save some for you Kaoru." Hikaru said leaning towards is twin. "Later we can play your favorite game."
Kaoru leaned closer as well so that I was squished between the two twins. I heard some girls squealing across the room. It was embarrassing. The worst part was that there was a part of me that actually enjoyed having the twins so close. So close that I could feel their muscles under their uniforms, that I could feel their warm breath rush over my skin, so close that I could just...WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING!?!?!
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU IDIOTS!!!" I shouted pushing them away and standing up knocking them to the floor.
"You're kidding me that didn't work." complained Hikaru.
"What!?!" I demanded.
"Well she's blushing so we must have done something right." Kaoru said.
"What are you two talking about?" I exclaimed.
"We were trying to charm your secret out of you." explained Kaoru.
"Why you..." I trailed off furiously.
Instead of straggling them like I wanted I took a deep breath, picked up my bag, and turned to leave.
"Where are you going?" Hikaru asked.
"HOME!"I shouted as I slammed the door.
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"Nice going." commented Haruhi.
"It's not our fault she overreacted." said Kaoru and Hikaru.
"Actually it kind of is." Honey replied.
"Haruhi, what's this?" Tamaki asked pulling a flier out of Haruhi's bag.
"Oh, it's just a flier for the local festival tomorrow." she answered.
"A commoner festival?" Kaoru questioned.
"I wonder what its like." said Hikaru.
"Haruhi! I insist you take us to this commoner's festival!" demanded Tamaki.
"Fine. It starts tomorrow morning at ten." sighed Haruhi.
"Alright!" exclaimed Tamaki, Kaoru, and Hikaru.
"Look Mori, it says that there's going to be lots of sweet shops." said Honey.
"Tomorrow we'll come by your house to pick you up." Kyouya told Haruhi.
"Do you think you could come in a less conspicuous car?" asked Haruhi.
"Don't count on it." Kyouya answered.
"Thought not." Haruhi sighed.
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The next day at 10:28
"This place is quite delightful! Where should we go next Haruhi?" Tamaki asked excitedly.
"There's a performance being played in two minutes. It's supposed to be an acrobatic play." said Haruhi.
"Let's by the ice cream cone stand first!" cried Honey.
"Honey that would be your thirteenth ice cream cone." said Mori.
"Not if we get the ice cream cake instead!" Honey answered excitedly.
"Well if you want to see this performance then we'll have to leave now otherwise we'll miss it." said Kyouya.
"Off we go then! Lead the way Haruhi!" exclaimed Tamaki.
"Sure." groaned Haruhi.
"I wonder what it'll be like." Kaoru asked his brother.
"Probably low budget no doubt." Hikaru answered.
"Yeah. No doubt." Kaoru replied.
The club sat down in the front row of the stage. The set was decorated to look like a swap and tall poles were placed across the stage.
"It says here that the performance is of the story of a young lord who gets lost in a swamp and runs into the inhabitants." said Haruhi reading the pamphlet.
"Sounds boring." Hikaru commented.
"And stupid." said Kaoru.
Just then a juggler came out onto the stage juggling what looked like human heads. The performer had short black hair, a mossy green outfit that looked like moss, black lipstick, a white mask that covered the upper half of his face, and looked no older than twelve. Then a fog swirled around on the stage.
"Welcome weary travelers. Listen well and learn from this story." he said.
"For if you get lost in a swap you could meet the same fate." said a ten year old girl in a matching costume.
Then she tossed glitter out to the audience and the juggler threw the heads to the audience as well. The children moved away from the severed heads and so did the host club. When the heads hit the floor though they cracked open and a bunch of bouncy balls came out spreading across the audience. Everyone in the audience squealed with glee.
"Look Mori it's a pretty colored ball!" exclaimed Honey.
"Yeah." Mori answered.
"Haruhi I got a bouncy ball." said Tamaki happily.
"Hey look." said Kaoru motioning towards the stage.
They all looked on as the performers came out and preformed the story of the young lord. The audience looked on in awe. Even the Hitachiin twins were mildly interested. Their interest wasn't fully sparked though until the queen of the swamp made her appearance. The Queen Imp was dressed in black spandex from neck to toe, brown-green ribbons were wrapped up her calves and her arms, a white mask that covered half of her face revealing murky green lips, and her hair was neon pink that went to her waist in a messy array. To the twins delight they noticed that she had pointed ears and fangs. She danced atop the tall poles flipping and jumping from one to the next. Each time she landed on one it bent back with her weight and propelled her to the next. Suddenly in the middle of the show she jumped to the pole in back which threw her to the one in front. That pole bent under her weight and lowered her so that she was in arms length of the front row of the audience. In fact she reached out and ran her index fingers up Hikaru's and Kaoru's neck like Tamaki sometimes did with his customers. And like the customers Hikaru and Kaoru turned bright red and forgot how to breathe. Then she leaned in so that they could feel her warm sweet breath. And just when they thought that she would kiss one of them she was propelled back onto stage. As the performer went back to the play the twins took this time to faint. 
"Mori I think Hika-chan and Kao-chan have been bewitched." Honey commented to Mori.
It didn't take long for the twins to come back around and they intently watched the play. Or rather the Queen Imp. They didn't know why but they simply had to figure out who she was. They had to figure out who the bright green eyed performer was behind the mask. Eventually the show came to an end with the young lord being dragged into the swap by the Queen Imp. Once the stage was empty the two performers from the beginning came out on stage.
"And no one ever saw him again." the boy said.
"At least no human." the girl said mysteriously and smirking.
"So if you come across a swap and a little bird tells you to leave," began the boy.
"Leave otherwise you might meet the same fate." finished the girl.
"And so concludes our tale." They said in unison.
Then everyone that was featured in the play came out on stage and took a bow.
"If you would like to see more of our performances please come see us at Circus Della Wonders." said the performer that played the young lord. "And if you would like to meet us then please come around back."
With that the performers left the stage.
"Hurry we have to meet them!" cried the Hitachiin twins.
"Don't you mean you have to meet her?" Kyouya questioned.
The twins ignored him and ran to the back of the stage. When the host club arrived they found the Queen Imp signing the autograph books of two five year olds. Once she sent the children off with a smile Tamaki approached her.
"Excuse me Miss Queen Imp but may I-" Tamaki began before the performer cut him off by holding out seven tarot cards. "Oh thank you."
"Wait a minute these already have our names on them." Kyouya observed.
"Oh! Are you psychic?" Honey asked.
The performer simply smiled. Then she took a step back as if to leave but then a group of kids ran into her and she fell forward.
"Whoa! Gottcha." Hikaru and Kaoru said as they caught her.
The twins may have caught the performer but her wig and mask clattered to the ground. She looked up at the two people who caught her and the twins eyes connected with the bright green ones. They saw her pale face and the color of her real hair. It was dark brown and burnt chest nut.
"HOLY CRAP!!!!!! GENJI!?!?!" they exclaimed and the twins dropped Genji onto the ground in surprise.
