Family. Everyone wants one, but not everyone wants the one they have. Some are born alone in the world, some loose what semblance of a family they have through divorce, death, or distance. But not all families are blood relatives. The most curious types of families that come together because of a common attitude, interest, or goals. They find each other because they need the comforts of family and an ideal that will stick them together when other families would crumble apart. The loyalty and devotion to this new family entity becomes so strong in these cases that outsiders don’t quite understand what’s really going on.

After seeing the world around him reject him for what he was, Samuel looked for others like him, others who knew what it was like to be an outcast but no longer wanted that lifestyle for themselves. The family came first, and then the carnival was created so they could live, work, and thrive together. The carnival gave them a way to show off what others found horrifying – their abilities. It isn’t all fun and games though at the carnival – there is hard work and everyone has to do their part, but when you’re family, you do things for others that you might not do on your own.

A commitment to this carnival is a commitment to being in the family. It isn’t always easy to join the family, but it’s even harder to leave. Most never want to though, who would give up the chance of a lifetime – to be wanted, needed even, and be able to truly be themselves?

In early 2007 President George W. Bush and a few of his joint chiefs were at a Anti-Mutant Rights Charity Gala in Arlington Texas where he was a guest speaker when tragedy struck. A bomb that was wired to the inner lining of the basement floor detonated at exactly 10:32 am destroying the entire building, reducing it to mere rubble. The nation was devastated, the President for which Cheney had amended the constitution to stay in office because of his fearless leadership against the mutants, was dead. His predesscor Dick Cheney stepped up as President and the new leader of the supposed 'Free World'. After Cheney was sworn in a video surfaced of a known mutant speaker taking the blame for the bombing.

Not just taking the blame but bragging to the public and threatening more death if the U.S.A. did not cooperate with mutant rights. At once war was declared on mutant-kind and any countries that supported them. Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Japan, China, all were standing at edge as the U.S. armed their missile silos. For twenty-four hours the world was at a stand still as nuclear holocaust approached. Fortunately an agreement was made, a treaty signed and the world was able to breath. The only drawback? Mutants were now property of the countries in which they originated and were to be tested, cataloged, forced into camps that were more like prisons and some tortured, starved and treated in unspeakable ways. Why? Well because they were the new terrorists, the new Al-Qaueda. For two years the world treated their mutants like this until finally it was India and Russia who stood up and said no more. (continue)