Chapter 2 - Circus Freaks

The Circus.

A place of wonder, of colours and feats of such unbelievable daring and skill that most can hardly bring themselves to believe the member are even human.

For the most part, they'd be right to doubt, atleast in the case of Hallie's Circus of the Unseen.


Hallie was a coniving, conflicted, contradicting woman who believe to very different viewpoints with all of her heart.


The first was that the Freaks of modern life deserved a place to be their freaky selves, while the other was that they better work damned hard at their craft to keep their place in her travelling show of the bizarre and the brilliant.


At Hallie's, you'd meet a demon whose horns could gore a fully grown man, that used his impressive assets to paint pieces in mere minute onto canvas that most would assume took hours.

When Berry Belle had first snuck away from her home for a night to enjoy the night of weird and wonderful, she'd been enraptured by a pair of brothers who would reenact the gladiator battles of old, with swords, tridents, nets and all, though never quite managing to hurt eachother, even though they seemed very determined to do so.



Berry had come that night with her own talent tucked away and a half baked plan to join the circus, to escape her crowded family home the way many of her older siblings already had.

Seeing those acts though was intimidating... It wasn't until she was plucked from the crowd to play the lucky volunteer for a performance by a blind, knife flinging vampire than she was forced to overcome her fears.



The pale man had breathed deep, and in the years to come she'd find out that scent told him which way the volunteer would flinch, while sound told him where they were standing.


Then, he turned, and his arm flicked out like a striking python.

The knife had come tumbling toward a girl named Bella like a streak of molten mercury.

And the aspiring acrobat cartwheeled to the side, coming back up onto her feet to the whistles and cheers of the audience, while one blind vampire wondered why his target had suddenly become so mobile?


That night in Hallie's big tent, Bella got her first taste for the cheers of a crowd.

Hallie's watchful eye saw a talent then in the young girl who'd been fretting her lip all night, chewing it raw while staring at the Ringmistress as though she were her biggest fan in the world...


A quick word backstage after the show with Hallie was all that it took for Bella to take up the stage name Berry Belle, and the rest was history.


Sometime, Berry Belle wondered if her parents had missed her, but in a house that crowded, it was just as likely they were glad for one less mouth to feed.



Berry's performance was one fresh and needed at the Circus. Not as high stakes as the other acts, but much more precise and skill based. While many of the others were of course talented, Berry's almost seemed achievable by a normal girl, and that hooked the audience in well before Hallie hit them with a real Freak.


Acrobatics were part and parcel of the Circus, byt Belle's came with a twist playing on her name, being a lot more energetic and often involving the fruit being thrown into her cycle of flips, swings and turns, kicked high into the air or smacked with the back of a hand into an audience members open mouth.


It was something to see to be sure, a mix of practice, and talent. The key was always to have the fruit being tossed in at the right time. Usually, if her supporting clowns were doing their job right, Belle barley had to think of the brightly coloured berries bouncing off her body.


Practice was her life. Practising on break, practicing on her off days, practising when she was supposed to be asleep.

Berry *lived* for what Hallie had shown her she was really born to do.


That was where Candy came in.


One day, during her usual step, step, pirrouete back to her tent, Berry Belle was focusing on a new idea for a routine.

The fruit was cute, but perhaps it was time to up the stakes? She'd been with the circus for two years so far... Knives seemed like the natural progression for most performers.


Her twisting steps took her into her tent and finished with a flourish, and her foot almost tpuching the top of her own head as she flopped back onto her bed.


She was smiling... Her clown makeup only exaggerated it.

She was wearing her usual polkadot bodysuit, and just considering if she wanted to sleep in it when there was a burst of flames in the corner of her tent.


Fire wasn't a strange even in the circus of course, but in her tent!?


Belle sat half way up before she saw the figure of Candy Stripes standing in the corner, eyes dancing with fire.

Literally.


The succubi was a double for talent, a triple if you considered the draw her looks had...


She was a sword swallower, and a firebreather, with a talent for mixing the two.


Just like all the best performers, her act had become a part of life, and even just standing there, she was drawing a long dagger with a wavy blade from her throat without any trouble at all.

The short flamberge was still coated with a sheathe of blue flames when Candy lowered it to her side, and with a heavy sigh announced.


"You annoy me."


Berry simply stared in confusion at the black and white clad girl and wondered what she could have possibly done.

It wasn't being competition, that was for sure.

Candy had the plump hips and overflowing breasts the likes of which Berry would have only dreamed of.


No, Berry was all tight muscle and firm... Assets. It was better for her act anyway.


The succubus took two steps closer to the bed and dropped her dagger point down into the ground where it stuck with a heavy finality.

Her now free hand lifted and touched the chin of little Berry Belle while her expression was a mixture of desire, excitement, and just a little frustration...


Belle smiled. She couldn't help herself really...


She had *never* seen Candy look so... Needy.


"C'mon, tell me what's up Stripes..." The younger girl prompted, her legs kicking like metronomes between the bed and the beauty.

The succubi's eyes flashed from golden to sunlight as she drew a flustered breathe... An *actual* flustering? From Candy *fuck your man, ruin your plan* Stripes?


"Thhhis! The whole... Ugh!" She exclaimed, but anger never fit on Candy, and though she pushed Belle onto her back it came off a lot more playful... And desperate.

Belle didn't mind one bit. Hardly anyone did when they were the centre of Candy's attention.


"The whole?.." Berry asked, falling to her back as her legs tipped up and her feet came together above her head as though the feat of flexibility was accidental... Hell, with how she constantly tried to be in these strange positions, it might have been.


Candy stood over her for a moment, a fang over her bottom lip, worrying at it as though the demoness were making a very tough decision at the cake stand.



"Mhmmm... You're always practicing and practicing... Constantly pushing and perfecting..."

Candy almost didn't seem to be intending to speak. Instead, it seemed like the voluptuous clown in her stripes and garters and neck ruffle was... Unravelling.


She lowered herself onto the bed, her hands splayed at either side of Berry's head, forearms pressed to the young acrobat's upper thighs as the succubi's plump orange lips and bright golden eyes came down over Berry's face...


Berry just smiled... Innocently. Infuriatingly.


"Every day you practice to please and be admired... I'm a succubi, Sweetie, and even I'm not as dedicated to pleasure as you... It's a draw it's a..."


Berry just asked with the kind of emphasis on each syllable that an inquiring student might use when pronouncing a word they aren't familiar with.


"A Ritual?"


Candy's eyes narrowed, and her hips pressed down to Berry Belle's with an odd mix of urgency and demanding...

"A Ritual..." She answered, and waited only long enough to see Berry's smile, all too knowing and understanding...


"If you tell anyone it's this easy I swear on all my oathes I'll-"

"Easy?" Belle asked, a sharp, painted brow raised.


"Easy... As in I've got to resist pouncing on you every morning at breakfast you little pain in the ass..."


Berry's legs lifted slightly, her feet unfolding from above her head and now resting just behind Candy's, her calves pressed to the Succubi's shoulders.


"Well nobodies here now..." prompted the young clown.


It was really all that Candy needed.

Really, as Belle stared into the sword swallower's eyes, she got the feeling it was more of a formality...


"Then let's keep it that way..." Candy answered, and with a whipping sound, her stripped tail snapped through the air, and the tent flap fell closed, plunging them both into gloom as Candy's arms dropped her weight onto the slender little dancer, her fingers pushing in under Berry's head and gripping handfuls of hair to squeeze and pull tight enough to keep her more wild urges sated.


Berry, for her side, had expected something like this but...


The tug on the back of her head set a shiver down her spine that tried to manifest as a moan, only to be stifled when Candy pressed her oversized lips to Belle's and forced her slender tongue through for a long overdue meeting...


The pair kissed as they pressed to eachother, the bodysuits they both wore almost frictionless as Candy began to grind herself up against Belle.

She'd always wondered how fun it might be to toy with one of the more flexible members of the circus, but just like Belle, most were focused on their work... She just hoped that Hallie wouldn't need to have another word with her about personal relationships in the workplace.



Belle wasn't really all that experienced despite her overconfidence in the run up. She knew she wanted it... She'd always found herself staring at Candy, but she didn't expect it'd be so... Liquid.


Before Belle could begin to worry  about if she should be doing something, Candy made it clear that she was going to be directing this little performance.


There was a harsh yank of Belle's short, boyish haircut, and while that made her moan into Candy's suffocatingly sattisfying kiss, the Succubi's tail got to work, slipping it's heart-shaped tip under Belle's bodysuit and slithering under the skin tight material like a snake...


It worked it's way along under her bodysuit, seeking Belle's heat like a missile while the kiss broke just long enough to let the younger girl catch her breath.

Berry made one little movement that pulled her away from Miss Stripes, and the succubus responded with the sweet and sour approach of another hair pull, before pressing her lips to Berry's neck.

"You're not gonna... tell anyone if I go a little... Rough... Are you?" Candy asked, a little guilt in her voice as she realized that this wasn't exactly a normal first... She was certain she'd never seen Berry with anyone else before.


"Am... I... Complaining?" Berry gasped, and that gasped spiked in pitch when the glossy, snake-like tip of Candy's tail pressed to her heat and began to stroke up and down under the suit, the tip of that little black heart seeming to follow a perfect set of lines to set Belle's nerves on fire...


"Keep it that way and it doesn't have to be the last..." Candy teased, biting playfully at Belle's neck, getting another satisfying little yelp from the youngest clown in the troupe.


The two stayed there for a few more moments, with Berry Belle feeling like Candy's favourite chew toy while tge Succubi felt months of frustration... No... Not draining but... Swirling. Faster and faster and... She needed more? Really!?


"More!" She purred, her voice as slick, sure and demanding as though it were an anaconda constricting any thoughts of denial from Belle's mind.

Belle, for her part, managed a moan that sort of passed for a "Oh for the love of all that is fuck yes." 

It was enough.


In a blur of motion that even Berry couldn't keep track of, she was tumbled over onto her side, before ending up on her back once more.

Though now, she was laid on the warm, squishy goodness of Candy Stripes... And damn if she didn't make a good mattress.


The sword swallower's tail squirmed under Belle's bodysuit with her legs still spread, Berry felt her wetness a little cold, pressed against the lycra...

Her legs were still up... She could have kept them there for hours if needed on a normal day, but when Candy's hand pressed over her chubby little head, the only plump part of the slender acrobat, her polkadot legs quivered and she gave up tge battle, letting them fall to the side...

For a long moment, the kisses at her neck slowed and grew in warmth and passion, licks and smacks of lips so close to Belle's ear that it made her head tingle...

At the same time, Candy's tail moved while pressed down by her own hand, sliding against Belle's little cunt with a slow eagerness as though it were it's own hungry entity entirely...


Before long though, the patience of the Succubi had to give, at least a little, and her long, pale fingers lifted the bodysuit away from Belle's wetness, just making it all the more obvious how much she had soaked herself in the tussle so far.

Fingers pressed in where the tail had been working at took over with more warmth and soft precision as Belle began to melt under the workings of Miss Stripes...


The tail pulled away reluctantly from the heat of Berry Belle and slipped up instead towards her mouth, poised over her face for a moment like a patient pet beforr dipping down and slipping through parted lips.


Belle tasted herself on that tail's heart-shaped tip, but she didn't quite seem to care.

Instead, she sucked, and chewed, and licked, and felt the reward for her good behaviour coming in the form of slim fingers sliding up into her tight, muscular walls... She was so tight that for a moment Candy worried she'd gone too quick until she felt how the little acrobat quivered... 

Nope... Just hard earned muscle keeping her nice and tight...


Interesting...



Candy carried on gently, slowly pumping her fingers in and out, noting from the corner of her eye as Belle's legs shook and twitched, deciding to get a little petty revenge for the years of teasing the girl had been putting her through.


The Succubi pressed a precise thumb to a precious little nub and began to work it in slow, deliberate circles, pressing it in gently against her own fingers on the inside the worked the top of Belle's squeezing insides like they were stroking a particularly well behaved cat.


The tail slipped in further, gently fucking Belle's pretty little inexperienced mouth with a sloppy rhythm that ran back and forth over the now entirely relaxed acrobat's tongue.


Time for the last little cherry ontop...


"Don't worry little Belle..." The succubi told her, the rubbing against the clowns clutching heat getting just a little faster with every few circuts.

"I'll be careful..." The strokes went deeper and deeper as Belle's whole body began to shift each time Candy plunged her fingers to the last knuckles inside her...

"You can relax with me little one..." Candy assured her, and pumped her mouth faster... Faster... She so rarely got to use her tail, and the simple compliance of Berry was so exciting to her that she could barley keep it from going rampamt!


"This might be your best performance yet..." She finished, before giving in to all of the soft, tiny whines and rolls of Belle's hips...

Faster with the fingers, tighter circles with her thumb and deeper with her tail! Faster, hotter, more and more!

She hadn't know that Belle would be so fun... The little performer was putty in the Demon's embrace and within moments the constant layering of stroking and pumping and rubbing and grinding and writhing and kissing and moaning and dirty talk the likes of which Belle hadn't known she loved pushed her beyond her limit!


The clowns legs twitched and jerked and half stuck out as she came to the orchestra of pleasures conducted by Candy Stripes...


Her panting breath came hard and fast past the tail that still filled her mouth, and Belle impressed her lover by sucking on it softly with each inward breathe...


"Om... wal... sekaw?..." The clown asked, though the words barley made it around the tongue, her voice still quivering as she came down off her orgasmic high slowly thanks to Candy still slowly sliding her fingers back and forth deep inside...

"Our little secret... So long as you don't mind a repeat performace every now and then?.."


Candy didn't think that Berry Belle could have melted into her any more at that moment...

She was proven wrong... The acrobatic clown was used to exceeding expectations after all.