Riley Gendreau
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That was Just The Opening Act (Ea)(Com)
🕑 Added 2025-08-19 00:33:32 +0000 UTCA commission for WildCirno
It was about seven fifty on Friday night; the audience at the Thundergale Grand stage was finally settling down, getting ready for the eight o'clock performance being held by an unknown magician named Victor
The Thundergale Grand stage was a very special place for magicians, both known and unknown. It has been credited with bringing some of the world's greatest magicians into the spotlight. It has a performance every day, one each hour from seven at night to two in the morning.
Most times a newcomer to the world of magic will take the stage, but every so often popular magicians will come and perform, as well as some old retired ones looking to have a bit of fun and to get that feeling of being on stage again and performing for a crowd.
It’s quite entertaining; sometimes the magicians wow the crowd, or they fail miserably, which gets the crowd laughing. No one had any idea if Victor would be a good magician or one they’d be laughing at, as no one knew anything about him.
He had come out of nowhere, with no history in magic or history in any way, as he didn’t seem to exist. Even the people who run the Thundergale Grand Stage couldn’t find anything about him, which nearly made them reject his performance.
Had he not impressed them with his amazing talent, he wouldn’t be about to take the stage. He had wowed them so much that they gave him the prime time spot, knowing full well his show was going to be spectacular.
After that, all Victor had to do was walk on stage and blow the minds of the crowd in a way they’ve never experienced before. When the clock struck eight, the crowd was expecting a magician to appear from thin air, or something corny like that.
Instead, Victor walked slowly onto the stage, looking quite confident and mysterious. Once he was at the center of the stage, he looked around at the crowd while smiling. He then took a bow and introduced himself as Victor.
He then revealed some shocking information to the crowd. He told them that he was a magician, but he wasn’t the one who would be performing tonight; instead, he was here to do one simple trick as the opening act for the magician actually performing.
The crowd started to whisper amongst themselves, some curious about what he was about to do, some annoyed because they thought he was the person performing; after all, he was the one listed on the schedule.
Either way, they didn’t get much of a choice, as Victor was already starting his one and only trick. Victor took both his hands and made a show of moving them slowly towards his mustache. With the left-hand one, he pulled on it, clearly showing it was firmly attached.
With his other, he slowly waved it over his face before grabbing the end of his mustache and pulling it. This time it came right off, revealing that his face was much softer and rounder, whereas before it was larger and square.
Some of the crowd gasped at his chance, not believing someone could change their look like that, while others were rolling their eyes and chalking it up to makeup and other cosmetics.
Victor glances around and then grabs his hat. With both hands on the rim of his top hat, he looks around playfully, as if egging the crowd on to pay attention to him. He then starts to pull his hat off, and out from the hat comes long blonde hair.
Most of the crowd was in awe, as before it looked as though he had short brown hair, but somehow he had pulled a completely different length and color of hair out of his hat like a magician would pull a rabbit out.
Victor lets his long blond hair fall down his back while he uses his hat to cover his face, while keeping one of his hands inside. The crowd is silent as they watch, wondering what he could be doing that he’d need to conceal his face.
When Victor removes the hat, the crowd finds that his eyelashes are much fuller and that he is now wearing a bright shade of red lipstick, making his previously softer and rounder face look quite feminine.
Victor takes the hat and flips it around, revealing to the crowd that there was nothing inside. He even takes his hand and tries to pull the lining out, truly showing the crowd there was nothing inside of it and getting the more skeptical audience members curious about how he’s doing all of this.
Victor then drops the hat on the ground and crushes it with his shoe before kicking it back behind the stage. Victor then looked down at his hands and raised an eyebrow. He then shook his head playfully, indicating to the audience that they were next.
Victor removes his gloves from what appeared to be large, thick hands, only to reveal a pair of petite hands covered in tight red gloves. He then dropped the white gloves on stage, and most of the audience members watched them, as they had no idea how Victor made his hands look so big.
Victor then spoke again, saying this next part was his favorite. He then removed his blazer, then his vest, and lastly he started to unbutton his white long-sleeved shirt, but he held them closed to keep a level of suspense in the air.
Victor looked around again and smiled before quickly removing his shirt. The crowd once again gasped in shock and awe as they watched Victor’s body and outfit change more. This time, Victor revealed the top of a strapless red dress.
Along with that, it was revealed that Victor was much slimmer than first appeared, along with the fact that his chest was much larger than anyone could have guessed, yet there was nothing indicating how Victor hid all these things.
As far as anyone could tell, Victor was just wearing normal clothes, which wouldn’t be able to hide a feminine body like that nor make it look so masculine before. Not being able to understand how it was done got the crowd both fuming and cheering for such an amazing trick.
Victor didn’t stop with the top, though; it was time to complete the trick. So Victor grabbed his hands and ripped them off, tossing them into the air, somehow without ripping them. This revealed the rest of Victor’s body, as well as his dress.
Victor's hips were much wider now, while his legs were long, thin, and completely smooth. The bottom of his dress revealed its exquisite design, including the slit that goes up the side to her lower hip area.
Victor smiled and took a step, then playfully looked down at his shoes. Once again he shook his head and looked at the crowd. By now, they all knew how this worked, and they were waiting in suspense to find out what Victor was actually wearing.
Victor tapped his shoes together, which made the shoes seemingly fall apart, as if all the stitching in them suddenly vanished, leaving just the leather parts to fall off. Once Victor’s real shoes were free, he took a step forward off the soles of his old shoes and revealed his silver heels to the crowd.
Victor then stepped forward and smiled. She then introduced herself, as if she were a whole new person the crowd had never met, which was true. She told them that she was Valerie, the magician of the hour.
She then struck quite the seductive pose. She then welcomed everyone to her show and asked them to give a large round of applause for Victor, who she said clearly got them all ready for the main performance with his opening act.
The crowd started cheering and clapping like crazy, and Valerie took it all in. She had already won them over, but they had no idea; it was one of her favorites and a great way to start a show, but far from her greatest trick.
Once the crowd calmed down, Valerie asked the crowd for a volunteer to come up and assist her. She then winked and told them not to worry; Victor was gone, so he wouldn’t be making anyone else look super amazing, at least not unless they want it, in which case, she knows all of Victor’s tricks.
The crowd once again got going, with almost everyone raising their hand hoping to be picked, all for their own reasons: some because they’ve fallen for her, some because they want to get close to see how she did it, and one or two guys who are wishing her magic was real and that she could do it to them.
Comments
Riley
I actually love stage magic for the fact that it's not magic. Don't get me wrong, I love fantasy and magic in stories, but stage magic is like solving a puzzle. I It's interesting to see someone perform and then sit there and try to rack your brain on how they accomplished such feats. Some tricks are indeed simple and pulled off with sleight of hand, but there are some truly amazing performances that are much more complicated and created using ingenious ways most people would never think of.
last_of_workers
Interesting story I'm not sure if I would like to become a PARTICIPANT in such a show but I would definitely like to watch it. It's just a pity that in reality all such shows are just sleight of hand, tricks, tricks and the like... Very sad... But overall the story is good and I liked it!
