D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

— Sylvie —

After whatever that was with Charlie, the group had headed over to the Water Fairy show. The timing just happened to line up for it, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Sylvie found it to be an interesting way to do a show. It was water based, of course, but what made it unique was that the stage itself was just slightly below the water line.

The edges connected to a, probably large, pool they could make use of as well.

That wasn’t all, the stage itself split at parts, or shot out water as well. The lighting was fantastic, and the costumes were quite nice. Sylvie had a slight moment of panic when she saw the lights the performers were wearing, but she quickly realised they were glow sticks, or something similar at least. They were mostly faded by the end of the performance.

All in all, the music was great, the dancing was great, the use of water was really interested and it had kept the whole group entertained for around an hour. Granted a lot of that was entering and exiting the stadium with the show itself only really being thirty minutes of performance, but Sylvie still found that impressive. The fact that hey a Question and Answer segment at the end was nice too.

Even if her question didn’t get answered. She wanted to know what their not-quite-glowsticks were and where to get some.

“So, did everyone enjoy that?” asked Vivian as she strode out of the stadium.

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“It was very good,” said Sylvie. “I never really thought you could do a performance like that. I mean, it was an odd mix of ice skating, swimming, and sliding around. I never really thought anyone would combine them like that,”

“I found the display quite interesting,” said Penny. “There was quite a lot of skill that went into designing the routine and the effort needed to perform it at close to perfection must have been substantial. I do not believe I could’ve managed to slide around without tripping. Well, there was that one fall, but it was also quite clearly intentional,”

“Yup, yup,” agreed Alice. “Though I really wonder how they managed to set up that stage at all. I mean, I thought it was impressive before they started moving it around. Those gaps! Ah, I wonder how they managed to make it compliant with all the health and safety rules. I wonder if the fact you could only fall into water helped with that?

Perhaps something to consider with my own designs in the future? Vivian what do you think?”

“Well there is a lot of things you can do with water to highlight an area you need to be really careful about the long term feasibility of the display. I don’t even want to imagine the maintenance costs just for that one show. We didn’t even pay for it! Honestly I have no idea how they justified building that.

It’s amazing, and I love the ideas they showed off… but yeah nobody else is making something like that,” said Vivian.

“Oh yeah… money…” mumbled Alice as she started to consider her new plans for that angle. “Oh yeah… that’s… that’s gonna make things a bit harder. Hmm… maybe I can sell it to Singapore or something? They have a lot of water around right?”

Callisto just looked on at the group with a smile.

— —

After the show the group went on a bunch of the rides in the area. The closet stop was the Fairy River Story which was a slow boat ride around a sing along area. The displays were all quite pretty and wonderfully lit, really, whoever did the lighting for the area deserved a raise. The only issue was that the ride was clearly getting a touch old.

There were quite a few places where the pain needed touching up and the speaker system probably needed some maintenance as well. Still it was fun enough.

Certainly more fun then the merry-go-round. Sure, Sylvie had been scared back at the roller coaster but this was ridiculous. They were just going around in a slow circle with some slight vertical motion to mix things up. Sylvie could honestly say that she had more fun watching Vivian’s wide grin then the ride itself. WHY Vivian was grinning was a mystery to her.

Even when she’d asked Vivian had just shrugged and started messing with her hair. Though surprisingly Penny had said, “I found that quite pleasant,”

“Really?” asked Alice. “I’m with Sylvie on this one it was a bit dull. I mean, I’m glad we went on it. The line was small and it wasn’t necessarily a bad time… but I was hoping for a bit of excitement you know?”

“I feel like I used up all of my excitement on that rollercoaster,” mumbled Sylvie.

“Oh don’t be silly,” said Alice as she hugged Sylvie for a few moments. “I’m sure there’s still plenty of excitement to be had. Oh I know! Why don’t we check out the teacups!”

Sylvie looked at her friend warily for a few seconds before nodding. “Ok, that sounds fine,”

Spoiler. It was not fine.

See it turns out that the teacups? They let you spin as fast as you want. Alice managed to convince Penny that the ‘optimum experience’ was seeing how fast you could manage to get the cups to spin. Vivian and Callisto had skipped out on this ride, as it was only three riders to a cup, but that just meant less weight to be moving around.

It wasn’t scary, especially not after this morning, but as Sylvie stumbled off the ride and into Callisto’s arms she had to prevent herself from throwing up. A moment later Sylvie was greatly amused when Alice did the same. Penny seemed fine, but you know what? Sylvie could accept that. Still, she did have to make fun of Alice a bit. It was her duty as a friend.

“So, bit of a bit more than you can chew yes?”

“Urgh,” Alice moaned as she put a dainty hand over her mouth for a few seconds. “I think that brain from earlier is disagreeing with me. I swear I felt it sloshing around in my stomach back there. Blegh… it was fun in the moment, really it was the stopping that was the actual problem. Just… gimme a minute… and maybe some water. Throwing up sounds nasty,”

“Indeed it does,” agreed Sylvie as she held onto Callisto more. Callisto just rolled her eyes. She was not concerned. There was a reason the apron on the front of her outfit was detachable, should worse come to worst. Really it was there own fault.

“Why does Penny get to be fine though?” whined Alice as she turned. “You should be suffering with us! Solidarity I say!”

Penny looked blankly over at Alice. “I would not wish to subject myself to undue suffering for something silly like that. I believe I heard my cousin say this once… but I believe you need to… what was it? ‘Get Good’?”

Sylvie snorted at Penny’s serious face as she said that. Then immediately regretted it as she threw her hands over her mouth. Alice pouted at the provocation before grabbing at the water she was being offered. “Vivian, Penny is being a butt head,”

“Alice, you do realise I’ve been standing right here the entire time correct? I feel as though Penny is in the right here. Making fun of you to ensure you do not think it is a good idea to repeat your mistakes is the thing a good friend should do,” said Vivian with a wicked smile.

“Maybe you’re all buttheads,” grumbled Alice.

“If I’m also supposed to be a butthead, then I’m going to say ‘I told you so'” said Sylvie to add more fuel to the fire.

“Meanies. All meanies I say! Truly I am just a poor innocent park-goer and yet I’m being ganged up on! Best upon at all sides I say!” complained Alice even as she started giggling towards the end.

Vivian smiled, even as she let out a yawn. “Well kids, that was fun, but how late do you guys want to stay out? We’ve gone a night booked at a nearby hotel so it shouldn’t be too bad,”

“What?” asked Penny confused. “Was the plan not to see the light shows tonight?”

“We can see them either today or tomorrow,” explained Vivian. “We’re not leaving until early the day AFTER so we can pick and choose. It’s the same show both nights so we only need to see it once… but if you want to see it tonight we might want to take a break so you’re all rested for it,”

“I say we go tomorrow,” added Sylvie. “We can sleep all night, and then in the car the day after. If we stay up for it TONIGHT then we’ll be all tired for tomorrow as well and not get as much out of the day,”

“Ah! She’s right,” said Alice. “All praise Sylvie for her excellent ideas!”

“Indeed, not like your own,” sniped Penny without really understanding why it was funny.

Alice pouted but could only just barely keep her own laughter from bubbling up. The comeback was hilarious, and Penny didn’t even seem to realise.