[img=http://i.imgur.com/TSd8HfI.png] [b][u]Phillis Circus: Big Top - Onstage[/b][/u] Aria's illusion had worked. Isabella had taken the faux-hit; with all the chaos literally surrounding both Aria and Lute, it seemed unwieldy to target anyone outside their immediate circle. And yet, Aria acted with decisiveness. Her knives flew straight after Guinevere, and her fellow performers would not be able to stop it on time. But a certain animal who had been resting on the sidelines and recovering her wounds had been watching quietly. When everyone made their way to the stage, she too tried to rise to her feet, to stop these strangers from hurting her friends. Yet every time she moved, an immense pain consumed her body, and she plopped back down. Doomed to watch her friends and fellow animals fight without her help. Then Aria's knives went flying. Right after Guinevere. [img=http://i.imgur.com/gTlTll7.png] Petra the panda wailed as she charged forward at full speed - and took the hit. She crashlanded right into Guinevere, causing the woman to stumble forward but not completely over. The ringmaster turned to see the circus' beloved panda bear suffering from a line of knives driven right into her body. She was injured, bleeding, but still alive and breathing; the blades had all missed any vital organs and arteries. But Petra's whimpering, her tears, her hurting, the crimson clotting up her beautiful fur. Ire. Fury. Ceasing her attention on Amy, Guinevere now turned to Aria and Lute. "Stop." She knelt down beside the panda and stroked her backside, patting down her ruffled fur. "Stop." Slowly she lifted her head to see the enemies in her sights. Her eyes flared with indignation. "Recreants... I will make you suffer." With Max's and Olga's crashes, the big top rumbled dangerously. The various animals' stomping around and crashing into things did not help the tent's sustainability. Still the tent was sent rumbling yet again; another giant teddy bear suddenly emerged from the curtained entrance nearest to Aria and Lute. Its appearance was enough to startle Lidya, but she regained her sense of awareness afterwards. With Aria's previous illusion gone, the lioness had a better sense of where the duo had gone off to. She pounced directly over Isabella and straight after Lute, paw posed to strike at his face upon land. [b]"Suffer!"[/b] Guinevere rose back to her feet, arm extended towards the teddy bear. It too rushed forward, as other dolls and items began to flood in after it. Dolphins and seahorses zipping around like bats. Basketballs bouncing all around, splitting off in every direction. Tiny, poor-quality critters crawling or flapping about after the various guilders. The longer ones glided along the floor, hoping to ensnare whoever was unlucky enough to be close by. Two orange snakes slithered towards Moira and Syed, their puppet-like mouths opening wide. Their paper thin fangs sharpened in an instant. The giant teddy bear followed after Lidya, but instead chose Aria as its target, with arms wide and ready. Once it was near enough, it tripped over absolutely nothing. With its arm still wide it cast a monstrous shadow over Aria and would crush her if she failed to move. --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/tbkllrl.png] "How could you... How could you!" Tammie screeched as Max had fallen, finally defeated. These people were monsters - total monsters! Sure they destroyed her 'home' and attacked her friends - but for them to down her own boyfriend too!? Now they crossed the line! Tammie rose to her feet and like any insane person, charged right after both Moira and Syed. As she ran, she hollered and screamed with the most ear-piercing thing anyone in the room had heard in a long while. She whipped out her hat and immediately began chucking more fireballs at the duo, setting nearby chairs alight from the splash. She had worked so hard to put them out - but now that Max was hurt beyond repair (as it seemed), she was too infuriated to realize the danger. Just as Moira and Syed prepared themselves... Tammie suddenly vanished. Poof. Gone. Erased from existence. Her screaming however had seemed to teleport, now coming from their sides. And there Tammie was, still angrily throwing fireballs at them like baseballs with tears running down her eyes and ruining her makeup. Behind her was Sammie, leaning along a chair, her cape held to the side. Like her siblings, her cape held a power as well - to teleport people in its place with a mere swish. [img=http://i.imgur.com/rxPNBnW.png] Sammie breathed deeply, her cheek pulsing with red from Estelle's attack. "Have that, you shit buckets." --- [img=http://i.imgur.com/Wa1ZH6m.png] Eric Coil too found himself violently pushed over, his side throbbing with newfound pain. He looked to see Cammie standing nearby, with one of those broken whack-a-mole mallets in hand (and his hat on the floor). The magician shook his head at the trenchcoated man. "None of this makes any sense." He then lifted his mallet, aiming to slam it it into Eric again. "I don't know if what you say is true... regardless, I can't allow you to hurt my fam--" A basketball slammed into Eric's head before bouncing off and smacking into Cammie's own, sending him whirling down. The mallet flew out of his hand and landed on the floored Eric right where it hurt.