Freaks Of The Nature

 By Felipe Lohan Pinheiro da Silva

[“Jean Sendy - Technology” epigraph, located at the “Literary Shared Libraries” section.]

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˙Ժoseph Kildall is the ringmaster of the private traveling freak circus, that had a show that showed people who developed special abilities and traits. Some of the traits were:

* ˙Ժuggling (throwing several, generally three or more, objects at the same time in the air, w/out letting them fall) & diabolo (a object like a wheel w/ a groove in the side, or that resembles two wine glasses attached to each other by their bases; it’s manipulated by two medium-sized sticks linked by a chord).

*Pyromancy, ƒіre performance, including breathing and eating ƒіre.

*Blade eating.

*Super strength.

*Stilt walking (walking over a pair of long wooden legs).

*Various forms of balancing & banquine (people using acrobatic moves while using the body of each other as support).

*Acrobatics.

*Unicycle (like a bicycle, but only one wheel).

*Contortion.

*Hooping (performing using several hoola hoops, that are rims that are large enough to be spinned round a people’s waist).

*Cyr Wheel (people using a man-sized rim to make acrobatic moves).

*Aerial contortion/ribbons/straps (Acrobatic moves around a chord/ribbon attached to the ceiling).

*Antipode (the performer puts his back at the seat of a chair and use his hands and feet to manipulate large-sized objects).

*Flying trapeze (There’s two separate aerial outposts; each one have two ropes that have one of their extremities attached to each one of the sides of a stick, that serves as the support of the performer; each performer puts the inner side of the hand at the stick and begins to balance their bodies; when their bodies get close they hold the arms of each other and one of them release his knees from the stick, so the other have to support both of their bodies so they can get safely to his outpost).

*Human cannonball (a performer is launched from a special-purpose cannon).

*Knife throwing.

*Pogo sticks (a stick w/ handles for both hands at the top and support for both feet at the base; there’s a spring system inside that allows for continuous jump).

*Puppetry (manipulate puppets) and ventriloquism (projecting your voice w/ minimal movement of your lips, to give the impression that the sound came from a talking puppet)

*Bed of nails (also smashing w/ a mallet an ice block over who is on it).

*Escapology (escaping from ropes and handcuffs).

*Body suspension (people are suspended by a set of hooks that are piercing their skin).

*Sword swallowing.

*Trampoline (acrobatic movements over a trampoline; trampoline is a round platform made of a flexible material, that amortizes the fall of those who falls there) and springboard (as the name suggests, a board w/ a series of springs bellow it, allowing to jump).

*Diving using a springboard/tower.

*Sleight of hand (hand tricks of illusionists).

*Accelerated healing from open wounds.

*Breathing inside a water tank.

One day, a gang of city criminals arsoned the circus to provoke chaos in the town to use the opportunity to steal. Some of then cornered ˙Ժoseph near the flames.  The ƒіrst tried to stab him, but he disarmed him and used it to stab him. He hit the face of the second w/ his cane and threw that knife at the third. He drew his whip rolled over his chest and cracked it in his enemies faces. They became distracted, and he rolled it back over his chest and drew his sword cane, dual wielding w/ the scabbard in the other hand. So he fought and killed some of the bandits w/ the machetes. The others tried to push him to the flames, but he casted a spell of protection from the flames and pulled the rest of the bandits to it, killing them. So he used the spell of accelerated healing on himself.

˙Ժoseph was skilled in magic, and was developing ways to replicate magically that special abilities.

Some time later ˙Ժoseph closed the circus and helped the surviving performers to ƒіnd new places for them. So he traveled to all around the world to collect the animals and plants w/ the most exotic abilities, and in some occasions he used a spell that he developed to breath underwater while going underwater to collect them. So he opened a private freak zoo of exotic flora and fauna and some of his former staff decided to follow him. One day, a group of wildlife traƒƒіckers tried to invade it at night to steal some specimens. They were spotted and a combat followed.

˙Ժoseph developed methods to train some of these wild beasts, and ordered to attack them. Both the dragon of the zoo breathed ƒіre over them and ˙Ժoseph also used his ƒіre-breathing spell over them. The big carnivorous plant also attacked and ate some meat. They were put out of combat. Sometime later, they confessed their list of the clients behind the crime.

Some time later, he wrote down in a book how to train all the species in the zoo and domesticate them, making them reproduce in captivity. So he published his book and sold the animals to several farms and zoos. So he closed the zoo.

So he opened a private freak museum and some of his former staff decided to follow him. The museum had circus curiosities, exotic animal carcasses and magical artifacts.

A group of art thieves who worked in the black market tried to invade it at night to steal some magical artifacts. They were using invisibility rings, but ˙Ժoseph had previously developed a spell to see the invisible, for cases like that weren’t unheard of by clever mages. So a combat followed.

˙Ժoseph used the power of the magical artifacts to ƒіght them. They were put out of combat. Sometime later, they confessed their list of the people behind the crime.

Some time later, he reverse-engineered the magical artifacts and wrote down the source code of the spells in a book. So he published his book and sold the artifacts to several museums. So he closed the museum.

So he started to work in what he worked all along: magical reverse engineering, the theory of the magical science and exotic flora and fauna breeding and genetic engineering.

THE END

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Bibliography:

See the "İnvisibility Bibliography" section at the Core Literature volume.

Also:

Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Virtuoso’s Collection