A Carnival in Darkness: Part 55

Dan rolls over and shouts loudly to Axl Low. "Can you help me get some students? With you charm and ability to bring out the best in people surely you can help me find some students for my lonely dojo."

Hamtaro and all hamsters surronded Axl, as they got closer and closer to him. Hamtaro wanted to tell Axl that he was a fan so he held up an Axl CD and asks for Axl to sign it.

Sailor Pluto decides to use her garnet orb to project a screen in front of That Man so he could see how all the senshis and duelists are treating Raven. Now That Man can see the humiliating songs and dancing that poor Raven is being forced to do.

Sakura watches the screen that Sailor Pluto put up to show That Man and then burst out laughing at what she saw. She couldn't control her laughter at the sight of Raven in a ballet dress, dancing and singing to the applauding senshis and duelists.

Charlie shakes his head as he saw the visions that Sailor Pluto showed in front of them. He could not understand how Raven could survive such suffering. "Now I think it would be very difficult to rescue Raven, they are too attached to him."

"Now that is a problem." Karin had no idea how bad Raven's situation is as she could not offer any suggestions. No sleep spell would work with a crowd like that.

The collar was a little bit better so Sephiroth thanks That Man but as to asking for Sailor Pluto to remove it he would save his breath, he believes that the reason why Sailor Pluto wanted Sephiroth to rescue Raven alone was so that he could get killed and Cloud's honor could be avenged. As soon as Sephiroth saw the visions and knew how bad the situation is, he wanted out of this. To him it looks like that it would be impossible to rescue Raven and no sleep spell could calm that crowd down. Sephiroth hopes that That Man would have a better plan. "If you want my thoughts I think you should start placing a help wanted ad for Raven's replacement. Anyone going near that place to take Raven way from that crazy group would surely die. You have other servants right? So they would just have to work harder and longer hours to replace what Raven does."

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A special spell caster field change was activated and with it, Raven was immediately wearing the clothes of the Dark Magician Girl and commanded to dance once again. Duelists cheered loudly and asked Raven to rap out all the names of every single yu-gi-oh card. Dartz had the power of the Orichalcos seal the senshi palace in three layers of forcefield to help make sure that no one can take Raven away from them. The Blue Eyes White Dragon pounds the stage with his tail to shake the ball with Raven in it up. Other dragons joined in and the played a little game of soccer with Raven, stopping only to allow Raven to sing and dance for the senshis and duelists.

"I got popcorn!" Sailor Moon hands out a small bag of butter popcorn to all the other senshis and duelists so that they can enjoy and watch Raven's dancing and singing better. "This is the happiest day of a senshi's life."

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When Axl saw the CD lifted up, he remembered these hamsters and started to hyperventilate just a little, but he'd get his breathing back under control before he might accidentally pass out or something.

Kneeling down and petting Hamtaro on his head and taking the Axl CD, looking around in his jackets for a marker, and luckily he had one to be able to sign the CD for Hamtaro and offer it back to the little hamster. "Here ya go, lil' buddy." He'd say with his usual smile.

When Sailor Pluto put the screen infront of That Man, the robe-shrouded individual would just be staring and with his mouth hanging open beneath his hood.

The one who had previously saved the earth just unable to believe what he was seeing right now. "Wha...What!?" That Man screamed before he actually began to laugh a little. He knew it was bad of him to laugh at the plight of his employee, but...This was just too funny for That Man to see his servant in such a position.

"My...My god, we must save him! Ha...Hah...The...The dress, it's just so unfitting of a cold stony individual like Raven." That Man said loudly as he tries to make himself stop. This was just so wrong in his opinion.

Blinking when he heard what Sephiroth had to say, even That Man was considering the idea of just leaving Raven to his fate. "I-No...Unknown...Please, come out now."

The moment That Man spoke, the entirely robed magician would slip out from a dimensional rip in space where it had been hiding. The entire body obscured by robes and the face, covered completely by a giant witch's hat that had an indent in the front.

Never once making a sound as the figured slowly lowered to one knee infront of That Man. Nodding solemnly.

I-No would follow out of the dimensional rip next, closing it behind herself as she had her guitar in her hands and was lightly strumming along the chords as she'd softly speak up, in-tune entirely with the musical notes filling the air.

"Oh come on, Boss...Can't we just leave stony lonesome alone? Don't ya think me and that...Thing over there are enough?" She'd say as she stopped her strumming and lowered her head slightly to let the rim of her hat lower down and cover her face as the provacitively dressed I-No would wait in her own way for a response from her boss.

Raven was gonna be crying now as he'd give in to what he was told to do, singing a Dolly Parton song for the Senshi and Duel Monsters. Managing to recall one.

"We sang a love song the day that we met You thought that we made the perfect duet You liked my performance so you wanted to know If I would stay on as the star of the show And beautiful music we made for a time 'til she changed our tune And you added new lines Our duet arrangement became a trio Now you want a star, but I just think you should know

I don’t play second fiddle in nobody’s band And I'm no back-up singer and I won’t be a fan And I'm nobody’s co-star I just play leading rolls And I don’t want the part, don’t want a part Won’t play a part unless it’s star of the show

Oh, she’s stealing the show that’s been so dear to my heart She’s changing our song 'til I’m not sure of my part She sharing the spotlight and there’s not room for both Now one or the other is the star of the show, the other goes

Life is a show and the show will go on The world is stage, loves an act we perform There’s always some new act somewhere up the road And I’ll always be staring in somebodies' show

If I don’t star in your show Well I’m still a star and I can still go You know I got to be, I got to be the star of the show"

The hell Raven was being put through had him crying softly this entire time now after the song and when he was starting to be used as a soccer ball by all of the dragons, the knocking around only stopping to allow him the chance to sing and dance somemore.