(Alright, I apologize for my long absence. Now that I'm on summer, I finally have time to do NOTHING. >:T)

**Introduction Music**

"... and FURTHER more, I believe this whole thing to be absolutely ridiculous! If they're getting in here for free BEYOND their wills, then where's the profit?! To run such an establishment without some sort of income would,"

From behind the desk, a hand raised past the large, turned chair in interruption. The sleeved hand flicked outward slightly, a cry of anger rising from it's owner. The masked creature witnessed this and grinned slightly. "Oh? You don't like me poking holes in your logic?" The hand calmly returned back behind leather wall as Mr. Carny's chair rocked back in forth in a fidgety way. This only aggravated Gondar's temper further, and with new found impatience came clenched fists. "... You're of the 'teaching the guilty lessons' scum aren't you?" A moment's silence was broken when Gondar's eyes gleamed with experience. "Look, it's been my profession to hunt targets, not to keep them in line at a kiddie park... you bought me for the wrong reasons," the hunter, with a hint of frustration, shifted through his things for the contract. "but, you bought me..."

The sound of a bell alerted the bounty hunter that people were approaching the gates of the carnival, and with unanswered questions he slid to the doors. "I just hope you can make good use of my... interests."

(Everyone will start either making their way to the carnival gates, or waking up at the gates. I'm once again sorry for the wait, and I hope people are still interested in doing this.)

Weiss growled a bit. She had suddenly appeared at the gates of a strange place. It looked like a carnival or park. "So this is why I should not have gone after that Grimm .." She then sighed but entered anyways. Maybe she would find her target Grimm here. .or not..

Akihisa woke with a start, flailing his limbs around in protection. "Akira, I said stop, you're my sister! SISTERS DON'T DO THAT! AKIRA!" He then realized he had just been in a dream and stood up, looking around. He saw people, some still asleep and some making their way to the gates of some kind of carnival. "What the...? Where am I?" The idiot stood up, looking all around, before deciding the carnival could probably give him some answers. He began walking, making his way into the carnival.

Jericus "Ing" Ignace fliped the safety on his lasgun as he walked up to gate "were in the throne am I?" he ask looking at the gate.

The roar of a large bell rang across the gates, the might of the sound shook everything for a short second. The doors, as if given an order by the bell, parted back into the carnival. In the large opened doorway stood Gondar; his arms slouched down with a hint of humiliation as he spoke in a tone of absolute disinterest.

"Welcome to Mr. Carny's circus," His ears lowered as did his hopes of looking like a 'badass' at some point in this event. "please come in, we have free... tickets... to something, I don't know, the food court." Gondar's eyes analyzed the people approaching the gates. In the back of his mind, the strong desire for something to go wrong grew.

Weiss paused. "So following a Grimm led me to a carnival? No thank you. Carnivals are for kids and I am not one..." She turned to leave deciding this was a compete waste of her time.

Xion walked up to the gates with a grin, "I can't wait to see what it's like." She said cheerily to herself.

"A circus?" Akihisa walked up to the gates, before looking at the other people present. "The next minute I'm sleeping, now I'm at a circus..." He whispers to himself, looking back at the gate. "Whatever, I'm not going in their, circuses are for little kids." He could almost imagine Yuuji standing beside him, arms crossed. "So perfect for you, huh Akihisa? Why don't you go play a game or two, who knows, you might finally win one." Yuuji would say, opening one eye and flashing that damn grin of his. "Hahaha..." Akihisa replied aloud, looking very annoyed and just glowering at the gate.

"What's wrong with circuses?" Xion asked the man who she had overheard, "You're never too old for circuses or carnivals," She said with a small smile.

♟ - Erika Furudo - ♟

Having been brought here after strange reports of unknown activity, Erika was more interested than annoyed upon being dragged into this situation. For now, she decided to go along with it. "I wonder," Erika thought out loud with a slight smile on her face, not minding the others that were in the same situation as her.

"Huh?" Akihisa turned his attention to the girl who had spoken to him. "Hmm... Never thought of it that way..." Aki replied as he thought. Then he returned the smile. "Yeah, you're right." Yuuji chuckled. "Jeez, did you really have to think about that? You're hopeless, you idiot." "Hey, shut up Yuuji!" Yuuji turned and raised an eyebrow. "Dude, I'm not even Yuuji, I'm a figment of your imagination that you made because even you think you're stupid." He then vanished. Aki opened his mouth. And he closed it. Opened it... closed it.

"Is...someone there?" Xion asked and looked around. She smiled, this man was interesting, a bit strange, but interesting. "I'm Xion," she said and stuck out her hand with a smile.

"Uh, no, just... imagining a friend of mine." Aki took the girl's hand and smiled himself. "Hiya, my names Akihisa."

"Nice meeting you," she laughed, "It's quite alright, if you can imagine your friend then they must be a good one for them to bug you all the time, even in your own mind." She shut her mouth, "That probably sounded really weird," she said. why am I so bad at talking to people she thought to herself.

Akihisa laughed a bit. "Maybe a little. But your right, he may be a jerk sometimes, but Yuuji is my best bud. He's always there for me and is always the guy with the plan. He's my best friend, and for a while, my only one." Yuuji appeared again and chuckled, patting his back. "I didn't know you felt that way Aki." "IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" Aki yelled at him, fed up with that assumption. He isn't in love with his best friend, he's not his doughnut for that matter either!

Xion smiled, "That's nice. My two best friends, Axel and Roxas always tease me, but they'll always be my best friends. They're actually my only friends..." Xion said and trailed off. Her thoughts were interrupted by Akihisa's yell. She laughed, "Is he bothering you again?"

(I made an announcement in the OOC.)

Aki sighed. "Even in my mind he annoys me, I think I'm insane..." He shakes his head and smiles. "So, these guys, Axel and Roxas, they good guys?" He asks.

Weiss saw Aki and Xion chatting about how great this was going to be and talking about thier friends. It made her think of her friends back in Vale and Beacon. She had to get back to them soon.

At hearing food Ignace perked up "can you direct me to the food court then. I will like to have some real food I've been subsisting on ration bar for the last couple of months." the guardsman asked Gondar.