The rest of the day, Twinkle spent her time with Ragatha and Gangle. She seemed to match the doll's kindness, and immediately showed interest in Gangle's anime style. Kinger was hidden in his pillow fort, Zooble was God knows where, and that left the jester and the bunny man. The two had started hanging out with eachother. They didn't really do much. Either Jax was complaining, Pomni was asking questions, or they just sat in silence. Jax early on coming here, had found a small room hidden behind a large gift box. The ground was soft like a pillow, the walls were mirrors, and the ceiling had some weird effect. It was as if a moving lake had the color of opals. A mixture of soft, pastel colors danced on the ceiling. It was beautiful, quiet, and not as bright as the rest of the circus. Jax fought with himself for a long time before he let Pomni in on his little hide out. That's where they were now, staring at the unendless moving water.
"Hey, Pomni?" She looked over at Jax, who had tilted his head just enough to look at her.
"Yea?"
"You really think Caine would pretend an NPC is a person?" Pomni thought about the question. It was definitely possible.
"I don't think he would. When..." She stopped, needing a moment to swallow the small lump in her throat. "When he disappeared Gummy Goo, he said he didn't want to mix us up with NPCs."
Jax nodded, looking back up. He was about to speak when both characters were teleported to the main stage area; landing on their butts with a thud.
"There you are! I couldn't find ya for a minute!" Caine laugh.
"Guess you didn't hear the theme song huh?" Zooble looked down at the two.
"Hm? Oh no, we didn't. At least, I didn't." Pomni stood up, rubbing her backside.
"Me neither." Jax mirrored Pomni.
"Today's adventure is gonna allow our newbie to get to know all of you as well as her new body! And of course, adding Pomni's favorite elements~" Caine floated around, making sure to get in everyone's faces.
"What- what do you mean?" Pomni pulled into herself, already terrified.
"FEAR! Of course~! Hahaha!" Caine's word's hit Pomni like a knife, making her retract even more.
"Today's adventure is called Hide and Scream! Each one of you will take turns being the hunter! And the rest of you will hide. However, the seeker will be a ghost hunter instead!" Bubble floated up next to Caine, his large teeth smiling as usual.
"And what about the hiders Caine?"
"Well I'm glad you asked Bubble! The hiders will-" Bubble floated closer
"And where will this be going on?" Caine stared.
"Well they will be in our-" Bubble moved closer.
"But what about-" Suddenly Caine popped the creature before smiling.
"The hiders will pretend to be ghosts! Scaring the Seekers. They'll have a special button that allows them to teleport about twenty feet away. With a cool down of twenty seconds to make it fair or course. Now, the seeker will have to steal the hiders white flag They'll have on their hips! Take their flag, and the hiders becomes a seeker!" Caine seemed proud of himself.
"Oh ok! Ghost themed hide and seek, with a touch of flag football." Twinkle nodded as she explained it to herself.
"Whats flag football?" Ragatha stepped up, confused.
"Really? It's football, but you wear a flag on your waist band. And you try to snatch it from the other team." Zooble explained slowly. The doll slowly nodded, getting it eventually.
"So, what does the winner get?" Jax spoke up, earning the gaze of everyone turning to the ringmaster.
"Hmmm." Caine thought long, and hard.
"Well, this will be a long adventure. Especially if you all actually try to win. What would a great prize be?"
Everyone started thinking. A loud gasp caught everyone off guard as Twinkle bounced up.
"How about the winner gets to choose a new location?!" Caine, as well as the others looked confused.
"Whatcha mean?" Asked the floating dentures.
"The grounds, I mean. The grounds itself is rather big. It takes about twenty minutes to walk to either the small amusement part, as well as the lake and water slide. So, how about the winner gets to add a location?" Everyone's eyes lit up with excitement, each one already coming up with what they'd want.
"Well- that is a rather amazing prize. But that would take a lot of effort and material." Caine was clearly on the fence, but the fox didn't back down.
"Just get rid of your exit door maze. It isn't finished anyway right? So why not simply delete it, and use that toward the prize?" Again, everyone loved the idea. Even more when Caine couldn't come up with an argument.
"Ah- alright fine. The winner of Hide and Scream will get to decied what new location we will add to our amazing world~! You'll have ten minutes to explore your surroundings, then a hunter will be chosen! Good luck my little booger butts~!"
Just as Jax was about to protest to the name calling, Caine had vanished. And in his place was a portal. It looked...familiar, to Ragtha. She couldn't place it though.
"Well, I guess we need to go in." Gangle and Zooble together stepped in first. After hyping her up, or trying to at least; Pomni followed Ragatha in. Twinkle looked back at Kinger, who was staring blankly into to the portal.
"Hey Kinger, ya read?" Twinkle held her paw out to the chess piece. Slowly he looked at her...
"AGH! oh- hey Twinkle. What are we waiting for?" Kinger happily bounced over to the portal. Twinkle giggled and followed.
"Wait a second..." Jax stopped himself. The last five minutes passed through his mind.
"How the f(beep) did she know about Caine's exit maze?" Jax thought hard, trying to come up with it. Eventually he shrugged.
"Guess she found it like pipsqueak jester did." With that, he walked in. His eyes though widened in annoyance.
"THIS PLACE AGAIN?!" Jax yelled out, while Ragatha squeezed with glee. It was the Mildenhall Manor!
Ragatha and Gangle were rather excited, while Jax was annoyed. Zooble looked almost as confused as Kinger. Leaving Pomni looking like she wanted to sh(beep) herself.
"Not this hell again!" The Jester called out.