Wonderland

A Story by Abishai100

Can a spirit-lifting circus 'circle' (the Gate) deliver a dream and also outwit a calculating baron who seeks to 'keep' them as his 'toys' of civilization?

A fable for modern time, inspired loosely by FairyTale: A True Story (Harvey Keitel). Enjoy,

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The United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) was enduring forms of terrorism and unrest because of Catholic-Protestant rifts arising from unemployment frustrations and poverty conditions. This moved a diamond-baron named Ion to invite a circus-team to the area to lift the spirits in the hellish part of Europe.

ION: This circus-troupe shall be cast as a magical/enchanting 'faerie-squad' for the lifting of the area's malaise!

Baron Ion was known to be a man of ruthless calculations and diamond markets and was known to travel in the modern media-circles of magazine-IQ and cinema photojournalism.

The circus-troupe he invited to the UK (Northern Ireland) was called the Gate, and it included members of immaculate giftedness and talents, and most of them hailed from parts of Eastern Europe and Transylvania and really did resemble some kind of spirit-lifting 'faerie-squad' from the heavens!

The ring-leader of the Gate is a coin-trick master named Amlan Satan who considers his circus-troupe a 'family' and guards a mystical secret regarding their special identity while in Northern Ireland!

One of the members is a super-fantastic soccer talent who can perform dazzling mini-tricks in front of a circus-tent area soccer-net/goal and reminds his audiences of the magician-like skills of great soccer stars in World Cup history/lore.

Another member is a toddler with a unique ability to make the consumption of tasty syrupy foods look like some kind of child-oriented mouth-prayer smile performance!

Yet another member of this enchanting and lifting 'Gate' troupe is a Lantern-costumed acrobat who can not only walk on glass but can also jump through rings of fire and not get hurt, even when/if the flames touch her arms, almost as if she'd have a kinetic 'bond' with hellfire itself!

BARON ION: I'm overwhelmed by spirit-lifting 'giftedness' of the Gate and shall invite them to my mansion outside Belfast.

While inside the mansion of Ion, the leader/captain/head-master of the Gate troupe, Satan (Amlan!) realizes the calculating baron hopes to keep the troupe as part of his 'empire' and never allow them to depart from his employment, even if/when they travel afar for performances. Satan realizes Ion's a madman who wishes to keep this gypsy-freespirited team somehow 'caged birds' and has to outwit the underground 'master' of capitalism/media with an inebriation persuasion (moonshine/whiskey) and a jacks-toy disorientation/distraction trick involving the grabbing of shiny silver-and-gold spiky 'game' pieces in synchrony while bouncing a 'cadence-ball' to keep time. While Ion's transfixed/hypnotized by his own attempt(s) at performing this floor magic-trick for Satan, the other members of the Gate inside his (prison) mansion sneak out the window(s).

Satan then tucks Ion into bed after he gets very drunk indeed, assuring him that all the other 'faerie-squad' members of the Gate are somewhere in his mansion, spread out and sleeping in various isolated rooms/chambers and await his future guidance/patronage. He also slips a note into Ion's shirt-pocket, which reads, "Sir, we're but simple gypsy circus-artists and indeed 'faeries' in human form and require liberty in motion and self-governance and can't just become part of your empire, but we hope this night of entertainment reminds you our intentions are 'wholly' dancer...and we leave UK tomorrow by Belfast-train and wish you fondest dollars!"