A Circus of Flames.

As the figure wearing a cloak clad with the royal family's crest disabled the traps on the outskirts of the cabin, they hummed as the metal claw traps fell onto the ground and sharp wood cluttered beside them. The cabin was now exposed.

"Whoever set up the traps around this area was quite smart- "

CLANG!

"MOTHER FUCKING MAYNIR!", shouted the figure as a claw trap hidden under the leaves clamped shut on their foot.

They started busying themselves disarming the trap and wrapping their foot. They watched the cabin and hoped that no one heard them scream. It was quite shameful to them.

"Fucking Maynir…let's just get this job done and head home. That really hurt…", they said.

As they limped towards the cabin their eyes glowed under the hood of their cloak, "Let us begin!"

Balloons formed inside the cabin. However, they weren't made from rubber.

"Fire!", Lucy shouted getting up quickly, "Everyone outside!"

As Lucy ran to the kitchen, Olivia got up and moved towards the door, eyeing the balloon as it moved, gently setting fire to whatever it touched. She then saw it slowly expand. With a gasp of realization, she shouted towards the kitchen, "All of you it's an ignition we need to get out of here now!"

As she ran outside, the balloons exploded, igniting everything in flames and lighting up the dark forest in yellow and orange glows. Lucy jumped out of the kitchen window with Alerian and Eliza following after.

"Olivia! Are you ok?", Lucy ran towards the front of the cabin, but three rings of fire bounced by, stopping in front of her before floating up and lining up together. As they lined up a tiger made of fire leaped out of the rings, landing in front of them and lighting flames where it stood.

"What the hell…?!", Alerian said before the tiger roared and jumped towards them.

The black suit of armor charged through the burning walls of the cabin, holding Hailey in its arms as it rammed the fire tiger into a tree, putting out the cat and leaving a sear mark on the bark.

"Hailey!", Lucy said grabbing at the arms of the metal armor trying to see Hailey.

"I'm…I'm okay don't worry about me…!", Hailey said, her arms etched with the designs of chains and flames her eyes glowing brightly in the dark.

"Alerian go find Olivia with Eliza!", commanded Lucy.

The three rings of fire bounced around, ricocheting off trees and the cabin before landing on each other on the ground and floating up on top of each other dropping an elephant made from flames. As it blasted its trunk, the rings floated around lighting the trees on fire around them.

Hailey got out from the metal armor arms, "I-I'll deal with it…! Go find Olivia!"

"No! You'll be hurt!"

Alerian grabbed Lucy, "And so will Olivia if you don't go! I'll stay with her and help her out with that beast now go before it decides to do anything!"

Eliza grabbed Lucy's hand and tugged, "Let's go"

Lucy clenched her jaw, "Keep her safe…", she said before running with Eliza past the elephant.

As they ran by the elephant trumpeted again charging towards the two. Hailey pointed towards the elephant, "Stop it!"

The armor drew its blade and ran towards the elephant stopping it as it rammed its blade into the eye socket of the elephant. It trumpeted loudly slamming its long nose into the armor, sizzling its armor, and causing it to buckle. Still, Hailey's ignition persisted as it headbutted the fire, before grabbing its sword again and slashing the flaming nose of it.

Alerian conjured swords, sending them towards the flame beast stabbing its sides.

The elephant let out a scream, causing the three rings of fire to link together.

"This isn't good…", Alerian said, gripping the handle of his blade.

Olivia with her ignition already active grabbed the top of an ice wall she created her eyes glowing brightly as she searched for eyes glowing in the forest.

"Tch…no use the glow from the fire wouldn't even let me see them…" she mumbled to herself.

She noticed three rings of fire floating towards her before lining up as if aiming at her. Fire shot out of the three rings, causing Olivia to roll out of the way.

Through the fire, a cloaked figure sitting on a ball of fire looked at Olivia, "Ah so it was a little Whitewater who left the capital", they said.

"Who are you?"

"Someone who's bringing you home and killing your friends"

"I won't let you do that! Did my father send you!?"

"Maynir no!"

"Then…who did"

"That isn't what you should be worrying about", they said as the three rings spun around them.

"Alright! Let's visit the circus now little Whitewater!"

The three rings grew as they spit out flaming circus balls, bouncing towards Olivia already starting to melt the ice wall.

"No!", Olivia shouted as she produced ice to bounce the balls away. However, they melted the ice to quickly for it to matter.

"Not good!"

Olivia conjured ice up as the balls came melting the constant walls into vapor. She was already tiring from all the constant ice she was forced to make as the fire ran right through the ice walls. She couldn't keep it up much longer without any harm done to her.

Lucy tackled the figure into the ground right on the path of the rings spewing of balls as her head was barraged with fire. Lucy got off slowly backing up towards Eliza.

"Olivia are you hurt!", she yelled.

"No, I'm alright! If you came a second later, I would've been screwed however", Olivia responded as she avoided the balls and came around back to them. Olivia hugged them tightly as the glow in her arms disappeared.

Eliza patted her back, "You can control it now?"

"A little bit…it still takes all of my energy rapidly. It's a pain keeping it a secret" she responded.

"You little brats!", shouted the figure as they jumped up onto a ball of fire. They were completely fine. Their face wasn't burnt off nor was there a single sear of flames.

"You are going to pay for that dearly! If it worked, I would've really been dead! Unfortunately, you're fighting with my flames!", as the cloaked burned up into the three rings behind them, three more tigers jumped out of the rings.

Under the cloak was a woman, her face red with anger with hair up to her shoulders. She wore attire like a lion tamers but more covered up. She reached into one of her rings and pulled out a whip of flames, taking a swing as it cracked the air.

"Ladies and gentleman! The circus show begins!", she shouted into the air as she put on a top hat.