Post by Mistress of Horrors on Jan 20, 2009 13:57:34 GMT -5
The Story
The year is _ _ _ _, ____, ______.
There are rumors passing the lips of the towns people that the Cirque de Macabre is back.
To those whose family has never bore a gifted child, the Cirque du Macabre is just a myth for the scum of the earth to get off on.
But to those who have bore a gifted child, or those who seek the morbid and macabre, the Circus is very much real and located just below their normal little town in the old sewer pipes.
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Charlotte and Lucian were born on a cold, winter night. Their mother did everything she could during pregnancy to insure her children would turn out normal. But she had no such luck. The two were born, gifted, as the towns people would say meaning they possessed supernatural powers. In fact, they were very gifted; the twins were the reincarnations of the ringleaders of the Cirque du Macabre.
As the ringleaders, the twins are immortal when together, and do not age past 18. They can be killed, however if they are separated for a long period of time, or by being mortally wounded when not together. Hearing of their birth, the Cirque du Macabre came and took the twins away, raising them in the circus that would eventually become their lives.
Now with the twins at the proper age, the Cirque du Macabre is back, and even more grotesque than before. Their audience members being their family that had sold them into that life for being gifted. No one outside of the circus dares to utter it's name, it is said to be just a myth. But for those with sick, ever expanding thoughts, the circus is very much real, and right under their noses.