Pictures And Carnivals

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ʜᴇʏ sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇʀ, ᴡᴀɴɴᴀ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ?

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(Y/N)'s POV

"Welcome! Welcome! We all welcome you to the grand opening of our carnival!"

The host of the show said and the crowd cheered.

'This place isn't for me'

I thought as I felt uninterested in the show.

Carnivals aren't really something I'm interested in and so, I decided to leave and walk around the carnival.

"Get your candy floss!"

"Try and win this massive teddy bear by playing our game!"

"Beware and dare to know the fortune of yours and the things you once lost!"

"Dare to enter the realm of magic?"

There was nothing specifically new or interesting in this carnival.

I kept walking around the area and stumbled upon a shop.

I stared at the shop as I felt a strange vibe connecting to me.

"Why, hello there."

A deep and soothing voice startled me and I stepped farther away from the source of the voice.

'Okay that's clearly a dude.'

"Don't be scared, I'm just here to show you around the shop since you seem to be interested in it."

The mysterious man chuckled as I looked at him in fear.

The man was wearing a long black robe with a hoodie and a mask covering his face.

He was pretty much the unknown.

'This should be the part where I run-'

My thought was interrupted by the man grabbing onto my wrist tightly and rushingly pulled me inside the shop.

'Oh god, I bet I'm going to die like one of those stupid horror movie deaths.'

"Welcome to the magic shop!"

The man welcomed me and I stood there stiffly.

The man chuckled awkwardly

"You don't have to be so stiff... here, let me show you some stuffs."

He gestured me to follow him and I did.

The shop was full of mystical, mysterious and strange items.

This is definitely something you would never see in any carnival.

Though, even if there was so much items I could wonder about I couldn't help but still felt curious about the masked man infront of me.

He was the mystery of them all.

"Have you found anything you're interested in yet?"

The man asked as he turned to face me.

"Am I suppose to?"

I asked and he turned his back and continued to walk through the shop.

"Well you gotta at least find something in here. You don't see and get these items everyday you know."

He said and chuckled lightly.

'Just who exactly is this man?'

I thought as I followed him around the shop

"Oh! What about this!"

The man turned to face me with what seems like two souls trapped inside a jar on his left hand and somekind of potion in his other.

I gave him a confused look as he combined the two things.

The two souls were now screaming in pain as the liquid of the potion was poured over them.

As soon as the two things were combined the potion burst and caused an explotion.

I squinted my eyes over the explotion and held my breath.

'This guy is crazy! Is he trying to kill us both?! Well, he did just forcefully pulled me inside the shop...'

As the explotion was over, the items that were once surrounding me burned to ashes.

I looked around and there stood a dog with black and brown fluffy fur sitting down with it's tongue sticking out while wagging it's tail left to right cheerfully.

I stared at the dog for a moment until I heard coughs.

I looked over my right and saw the unknown man coughing from the smoke that surrounded him after the explotion as he laid on a pile of broken down wood.

Though, even if our surroundings were somewhat burned to ashes the man's outfit and mask was not destroyed at all as if the explotion never happenned.

"Still not interested?"

The man asked as he got up from the pile of broken wood and fixed himself.

"Of course not! Are you crazy?! You could've killed us with that explotion!"

I yelled at him and he massaged his temples in frustration.

"Look, I'm only here to give you an offer! I don't come and just talk to random strangers for nothing, you know!"

He complained and I gave him an annoyed look.

"You littelarly just forcefully pulled me inside this shop without even letting me saying a word or agreeing to it. I'm pretty sure a crackhead like you come around and bother strangers often to ruin their day."

I scoffed and he walked towards me angrily.

'Well, you done it this time (Y/N).'

I thought to myself as I backed away from him.

I ended up meeting and leaning against the wall.

'Well, time to meet your death.'

I closed my eyes preparing myself to meet my death but after a few moments I heard a loud thud instead.

I opened my eyes and saw the man behind a messy table full of books, papers, feathers, pens and jars of who knows what is in there.

The man sighed heavily and massaged his temples in frustration.

"Look, as I said, I'm only here to give you an offer. I'm just trying to do my busness here."

"And what if I don't?"

I dared to ask him and the man sat up straight.

"Well, we do have other ways."

He said as he snapped his fingers and revealed chainsaws and spears ready to chop someone up alive.

I shivered in fear and stutterred

"W-what do you have in offer?"

I felt the man smirked and he folded his arms and leaned back against the chair

"Now, that's more like it."

He said and chuckled.

"Just tell me your offers."

I said to him as I gave him a glare

"Well, you didn't seem much interested in any of the items here so that's the first. The only thing I have left to offer you is this."

The man handed out 2 blurred pictures that seemed to be taken in a photobooth.

"What's this?"

I asked

"Nothing. Just an ordinary photo."

The man said as he chuckled

"Yeah, I don't think I'm taking it."

I said to him and I felt him smiled

"Good, because I've been getting impatient."

He said and snaped his fingers revealing his death machine.

I looked at it with wide eyes.

"U-uh, actually, I'll take it."

I changed my mind and he snapped his fingers again causing the dangerous thing to be put away.

"Great. Sign here."

He pulled out a contract but I learned from people's mistakes so I read the contract.

'The agreement was due on the day of

XX XXXXX the year of XXXX.

We here by agreed to gave the present owner of this item ownership and responsibility over it.

Which means the previous owner of this item do not have responsibility to any damage that have been done towards the item-'

'Okay this is getting boring.'

I signed the contract and just like that the contract disappeared.

I felt the man smirked

"That'll be $36-"

'Hold up-'

"Can't you just lower price? I think it's pretty overpriced for just 2 pictures. I mean you did just forced me into buying it."

I argued and the man was annoyed.

"Fine, 32."

"15."

"What about 28?"

"15."

"20?"

"Fine."

I gave the money to him and we finally ended the arguement.

"Have a nice day."

And with that the shop disappeared and I was placed inside of a photobooth.

'Click'

The sound of the camera echoed through my ears and I went over the photo slot to see pictures of me but interupted by a man with masculine yet charming face.

I held the picture and turned around to face the stranger.

He was sitting down with a relaxed posture on the photobooth's chair.

I was about to argue with him but when I opened my mouth to speak nothing came out.

The stranger smirked at me

"How's the picture?"