5Disclaimer : I do not own Ah! My Goddess, nor do I own Killer Klowns from Outer Space
2nd disclaimer : There will be character death in this fic, mostly of minor characters and secondary characters. It will be as graphic as the deaths in the Killer Klowns from Outer Space Movie, though.
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Only a few days ago, the Four wheels club and the Auto club did some charity gig, competing against each other in a few competitions. One was a race using motorcycles that used RC-type engine. The other competitions also involved Motorcycles. One of which Keiichi brought out the reverse trike motorcycle that he made out of a Jetski.
A little deep in a forest somewhere nearby Nekomi in the evening, Aoshima followed after Tamiya and Otaki to check out a campground. They had rented it because both clubs had agreed to have a party celebrating the success of the charity event, mainly because Belldandy had asked the Four Wheels to join them.
'I can't believe I'm doing this, but it was either this or trust in these two nincompoops to rent a decent place. Knowing them, they'd pick a swamp, thinking it'll add character…' Aoshima thought with a frown as he looked down at his suit. The pants were wrecked with mud and the jacket was torn from branches and bushes. 'Then again, they may have gotten a swamp with how muddy this place is… I can always offer to host the party elsewhere...'
"We're almost there!" Tamiya loudly said as he pushed some branches out of the way. However, he didn't move from the trees he was near, making Otaki and Aoshima run into him.
"What's the big idea?" Otaki asked, backing away into Aoshima.
Aoshima fell backwards on his butt. He grumbled a bit more as now his jacket was splattered with mud.
"Did anyone order a tent, like the circus kind?" Tamiya asked pointing ahead.
Otaki leaned to the side of Tamiya and looked.
"Can't say I have. Don't have the money for it. Aoshima, you order a tent for our party?" Otaki said as he looked back.
Aoshima was getting up, trying futilely to wipe away the mud when he noticed that he was being stared at.
"No, I haven't ordered any sort of tent," Aoshima replied. He leaned over to the side a little bit. "but if I did, I wouldn't have ordered one in such horrid colors…"
Just up ahead, was a large circus tent, colored in red and yellow stripes. An odd light was coming from within. Aoshima noted that there wasn't any shadows of any kind of support, which almost made it look like the circus was an oversized nightlight.
"Well, I didn't order the tent, Otaki didn't order it, and if you didn't.. Then someone is squatting on our land!" Tamiya roared. Otaki nodded and the two began to stomp towards the tent, intending on scaring the ones inside.
"Hold it! Can we be sure if it really is the area that we rented? let's find out first by finding the number sign!" Aoshima cried out. Tamiya and Otaki froze, then their shoulders slumped.
"I hate it when he makes sense…" Tamiya grumbled. Otaki nodded.
"Let's split up, but meet back here. The sign should be around here in plain sight," Aoshima stated before he put his hands in his pockets and began to walk around the circus tent, but still within the bushes. 'I don't know why, but that garish tent is sending shivers down my spine… I feel like I should run and never return...''
When the Auto Club duo went out of sight because of the large tent, The feeling of that he shouldn't be there increased.
'I can't believe I'm even thinking this, but I actually almost wish that one of those morons was with me!' Aoshima thought before he spotted the sign for the campground. To his displeasure, they were at the campground the Auto Club Duo had picked out. He almost wept as he thought, 'Just my luck...'
He continued to circle around the tent until he met up with Tamiya and Otaki. Just as he neared them, Aoshima felt a shiver go up his spine as the feeling of being watched began to unroll over him like a cold fog.
"Any luck?" Tamiya grumbled.
Aoshima nodded with a stern frown before he whispered, "Yes, but I honestly think we should get the police for this."
Both Tamiya and Otaki smirked like Aoshima was a dull child asking what color was the sky.
"C'mon… we can easily scare whoever put up the dumb tent into taking it down," Tamiya said as he crossed his arms and nodded.
"Yeah! and if dat don't work, we can always take it down ourselves!" Otaki stated as he patted Tamiya's shoulder.
The cold shiver running up and down Aoshima's back began to grow into dread as he sensed whoever was spying on him began to smile.
"Look, I know we've had our differences in the past, but I really think we should leave and get the police. I have a bad feeling about that tent," Aoshima hissed.
Tamiya and Otaki's smirks turned to frowns.
"If youse wanna leave and get the police like a big baby, go ahead…. you big baby," Tamiya said before sticking his nose up, turning around and marching towards the tent. Otaki did as well.
Aoshima gritted his teeth for a few moments before he muttered, "Fine! Don't way I didn't warn you!"
He turned around to go back to his car. It had taken a few minutes. Minutes that seemed like he was being observed all the way back. No matter how many times he looked back, he spotted no one, not even Tamiya and Otaki.
"I shouldn't have even tried to talk sense into them. They're dumber than the vehicles they build!" Aoshima grumbled to himself as he neared his car. Tamiya and Otaki's motorcycles were nearby his car. "Still, they do keep them in decent condition…"
After he entered his car, he started it up and began to drive away. When he looked up at the rearview mirror, he gasped and almost hit the accelerator when he spotted a flash of bright yellow amongst the dark green. He locked the doors and looked back.
Nothing.
Just the green bushes and trees in the evening.
He almost let out a sigh until he recalled a movie or two with similar scenarios that had the monster right by the car, ready to mash open the door and kill whoever was inside.
While still looking back, Aoshima nervously gulped.
'Please don't let anything happen to me. I don't want to die! I have yet to win over Belldandy!" Aoshima thought as he slowly closed his eyes. After taking a deep breath, he quickly turned his head forward, did his best to mentally gird himself up for any horrors, and opened his eyes.
Nothing.
Nothing around him, nor in his car. He couldn't help but laugh for a few moments
"Heh heh heh! I must simply stop watching horror movies, even though they help with dates. If they're getting to me like this, I should try another tactic the next time a lovely lady falls for my charms," Aoshima muttered as he ran his hand through his hair. He then put the key in the ignition, started up his car and drove off, never knowing that the trunk of his car had its lock cut out or that popcorn was being tossed out of the newly-made hole..
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Some time later, one of the many sensor alarms went off in Skuld's room, awaking the young goddess who had fallen asleep at her desk while she had been designing a new weapon for Banpei.
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"Wahh!" Skuld cried out as she kicked away from her desk. When her chair began to tip over, she tried her best to grab the desk that was just out of reach as she pleaded, "No-no-no-no-no!"
Just as the chair reached the point of no return, Skuld grabbed the desk and let out a relieved sigh. Then she tensed up, not liking the loud slam that was to occur the moment she pulled herself to the desk.
SLAM! 'Bweep-Bweep!'
She then heard the sound of footsteps rushing towards her room. She faced the door when it quickly opened.
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"Big si-Oh it's you…" Skuld muttered when she saw it was Keiichi.
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"What happened?! Are you alright?!" Keiichi exclaimed as the sound of more footsteps was heard.
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"Skuld, you alright?" Urd's voice asked as she drew near.
'Bweep-Bweep!'
Skuld grew a smile when she heard Belldandy's voice call out, "I heard an awful noise from your room, Skuld! what happened?"
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"I was taking a nap when one of the alarms in my room went off. I almost tipped my chair over," Skuld said as she hopped off the chair. She looked around the room, trying to pinpoint the alarm. "Anyone wanna help find it?"
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"While I'm glad you're alright, squirt, what alarm are you talking about?" Urd asked as Keiichi moved out of the way to let in herself and Belldandy before he entered. She covered her ears for a moment as she asked, "Is it some stupid alarm that goes off when something gets too loud? 'Cause it's probably on a perpetual loop!"
'Bweep-Bweep!'
"I took apart that specific alarm ages ago! As for this one, I honestly can't remember… Maybe that'll change if I can get a good look at it?" Skuld muttered as she looked in one box of inventions.
'Bweep-Bweep!'
As both Urd and Belldandy followed Skuld's tactic of visually searching for the alarm, Keiichi decided to try and find it by trying to find the box where the sound was coming from. After cupping his ear and putting his head near each box. After almost a minute of searching, he picked up the box that seemed like it and held it out to Skuld as he said, "I think I found it!"
'Bweep-Bweep!'
Skuld took the box, put it on the ground, and opened the box. Indeed, it did have the alarm and Skuld turned it off. The alarm had a LED screen that was showing four bars. Two bars stretched from the bottom to the top, while a third bar was near the bottom and the fourth was slowly growing.
"So what is it and why'd it go off?" Urd asked. she was tempted to to go and poke at it with a finger, but she didn't want to hear the alarm go off.
Skuld took a deep breath and nervously said," I… forgot."
"Is it anything important?" Belldandy asked.
"Maybe… I can't remember… " Skuld answered as she shrugged. She pointed
"Well, maybe you'll remember what it is if you work on something else. Let the answer come to you?" Keiichi suggested.
"I'll try that… I just hope it works…" Skuld grumbled.
"It does for me when I forget something," Keiichi said before he left Skuld's room. Urd and Belldandy followed suit.
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Aoshima stopped nearby the police station. After turning off the ignition, he stepped out of his car and walked in.
When he neared the desk in the lobby, he said, "Sirs! I came to report that someone has trespassed on a campground that I and some others have reserved for ourselves. What makes the matter even worse is that they set up a horribly garish circus tent!"
The police desk clerk who was at the desk took out some paper and asked, "Alright, so what campground and can your provide any proof?"
Aoshima placed the form he and the Auto club filled out on the desk. The officer looked at it and smiled.
"Ah, an N.I.T. group… We'll send someone out in the morning, Mr. Aoshima," The police desk clerk said with a smile.
"Very… Very well…" Aoshima grumbled before he picked up the form and left the Police station. When he stepped outside, he noticed that the trunk of his car was opened and the area where the lock had been replaced with a hole. He ran back inside and exclaimed, "Officer! Someone broke into my car while I was talking with you!"
The police desk clerk sighed before he looked off to the sides and ordered, "You two, go out with him and check up on his car…"
Two officers then came out of a door and followed Aoshima outside.
"I'm Officer Hamata and this is Officer Higuchi," One of the officers said. Aoshima made a slight nod to indicate that he heard them.
As the two inspected the hole and the trunk, Officer Higuchi asked, "Think it's one of the N.I.T. clubs that did it to scare him?"
Officer Hamata shook his head and pointed at the hole in the trunk hood. "It's been cut too clean for them… I think we might need to send a car out to the campground, just in case…"
Officer Higuchi then noticed some popcorn in the trunk and some leading away from the car. Looking behind the car, there were little bits of popcorn leading off into the distance. Looking back at Aoshima, Officer Higuchi asked, "Sir, did you store any popcorn in the trunk?"
Placing a hand on his own chest, Aoshima exclaimed, "Heavens no! I dare not touch the stuff!"
"Hn… Looks like we'll need to go out and check the campground for that tent you were talking about with the desk clerk as soon as possible then…" Officer Hamata said.
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Note from HotelKatz: This was an idea that I had tossed onto the Goddess Relief Office Forums. After a few posts supporting it, I decided to write it for Halloween.
The title, 'Coulrophobia' was thought up by Nena Camadera of the Goddess Relief Office forum.
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There wasa bigger author's note here, but it was taken down to remove possible spoilers.
