"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/