“Finally I need some people here beside me. Maria would you please come back onto the stage again? And  I still need two more.”
Many people raised their hands and Roxanne pointed to two of them, who came to the stage quickly.
They were both men. The one was a little bit older and wore a grey suite, while the other man was about thirty and wore a black suite.
“The next trick is a classic. I will saw our lovely Maria apart. Gentlemen? would you please help Fantasy carrying the box onto stage?”
They nodded and walked backstage. Together they carried a huge wooden cross onto stage.
It was high enough to contain a full human and the arms of the cross were held by two metal stands.

“Maria? Would you please remove your shoes and step inside the cross?"
“Sure!”
She kicked her shoes away and took place.
"Oh, as I'll saw you in pieces, I can't promise that your clothes won't get damaged. Would you like to change your clothes?"
"Yes, that would be nice, but where and how?"
"Just stand still."
Roxanne walked to her and as she touched Marias red gown it transformed into an outfit similar to the ones, which the assistants were wearing, but in red. Then she touched Marias feet with her toes and her tights vanished completely.
"Come to me after the show to get your things back. Than let the show begin!"

At next Fantasy brought a strange looking metal frame. It was kinda similar to a window because the empty space between the metal bars was filled with glass.
It was put on the front side of the cross and so locked Maria inside.
“Now please put your arms into the spaces left and right of you. – Alright. You still have too much space to move. We have to change this. Fantasy? It’s time for the wax!”
Suddenly Fantasy brought a tube, which was connected to something behind the curtains.
Roxanne attached the tube to a hole on the side of the cross and gave Fantasy a sign.
Out of the tube came a transparent liquid, which filled the whole free space and so covered Marias body.
When it reached her neck it stopped.
“Tell me Maria. How does it feel?”
“It’s so warm and wonderful. I could sleep instantly.”, she said, and Roxanne asked: “Aren’t you afraid about what’s coming next?”
“Nope. Not a bit!”
“Applause for the brave lady! We’ll see if she stays in this mood.”
At next Fantasy brought a large handsaw.
“It is time for counting pieces! Gentlemen, come and help me saw Maria in half! Just take one side of the saw each of you and follow my instructions!”
She showed them the right height, which means at height of Marias belly button, and they started sawing.
Now the reason for the metal bars was also clear. Always two bars with a small gap between them were the spaces for the saw.
This allowed Roxanne to separate the parts better. At first the saw only went through the wax, but then it hit Marias flesh.
At this point the guys clearly had to put more effort in sawing through it.

“Ah it seems they already are through her skin. We soon will see, when they hit the spinal column, because it is always much harder to cut through than the rest!” Maria didn’t seem to feel pain so Roxanne asked her. “How are you feeling yet?”
“Still good. It only tickles a bit!”
“Nice that you are enjoying it!”
Finally the two guys finished cutting through and Roxanne put a steel plate into the gap to keep Marias halves separated.
“Maria is now in two parts. More to come!”
At next they saw through her knees.
“Three!” Through her ankles.
“Four!” Through her neck.
“Five” and then Fantasy brought two smaller saws.
“Now guys, start sawing Marias nice arms of! One, two three, let’s go!”
Her arms didn’t drop, because the stands still were under the piece of the cross with her arms.
“Six and seven!”, Roxanne counted. The next parts, which got detached, were her forearms and her hands.
“Ten and eleven!”, the magician shouted.
“The next parts are very hard. Do you see the small gaps between the small metal bars on each of her finger joints? Take these small saws and start sawing!”
After a while they really separated her complete fingers at all joints.
Roxanne even had small petal plates for this.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we now have forty one parts and are still not done! Now Maria did you enjoy it so far?”
“Yes! The worst part was the fingers, because it tickled so hard that I nearly laughed my ass off.”
“Just wait, maybe you’ll really lose your ass soon!”
Of course the people laughed loudly.

Fantasy now brought two ladders. She placed one on the left side and one on the right side. The men stepped onto the ladders.
“Guys? Can you see the gaps on the top?”
“Yes” “Yep”
“Just start sawing straight through again, until I tell you to stop”
This means they now started horizontal from above to the top. So the people saw as the teeth of the saw entered the flesh of Marias breasts and tore a hole into her outfit. When the breasts were finally separated Roxanne told them to stop and to pull the saw out of the cross.

“Forty-two and forty-three!” At next the guys had to put one ladder on the backside and one on the front side, because they had again to cut through the cross again from above, but this time with the goal to split Marias body in two parts vertically!
“Well, Maria is now in forty-four parts! Not in two halves as usual, but in forty-four parts! Time to rearrange her a bit! Guys, you can sit down now.”

Roxanne took all separated parts apart and mixed them as if they were cards.
“And Maria? Still alive?”
“I think so. I’m feeling a bit dizzy, but this may because my head is split in two halves! Hahaha.”, Maria said, although her head was not in one part, so her voice came out of two different boxes.
The one with her left half and the one with her right half.
“Yep. I agree that this possibly the fact.”
After mixing the boxes, Roxanne put them together again but in a complete wrong order.
“You look like a masterpiece from Picasso now. But how can I get you in one piece again? Would you mind staying in this form?”
“Yes, I would!”
“Really? Damn, well I have an idea.”
Together with Fantasy, Roxanne removed all plates, which separated the boxes. So Marias body parts were attached on places, where they shouldn’t be.
Again Roxanne attached the tube from before to one of the pieces.
“Maria? Do you like it hot?”
“Um, not really?”
“Well, bad for you.”
Roxanne spread her arms, so that the inner sides of her hands were facing the conglomerate of body parts. Everyone could feel the heat, which came out of them.
The wax began to melt and with it, also Marias body parts seem to melt, as if they were out of wax.
The pink substance was sucked into the tube.
“Problem solved!”
The calm music, was playing the whole time stopped, the stage lights went on completely and the people started to clap.

Suddenly Fantasy stepped to Roxanne and whispered something into Roxannes ear.
“Ah, of course, I forgot to put all my assistants of this wonderful evening back to normal! Let’s start with Majikku!”
The Majikku, this means, the five boxes out of which her head and her bare hands and feet were sticking walked onto the stage again. Suddenly the song “It’s a kind of magic.” from Queen started playing and Roxanne stepped to the five boxes.
She lifted them up and stuck Majikkus head, feet and hands back into the boxes.
She shook the whole thing, threw it into the air two times and the boxes hit the floor after throwing it in the air the second time it exploded and when the smoke was gone a complete restored Majikku was standing on the stage.
The people clapped and Roxanne continued. She took the little bucket, which contained Dreamy.
“Does anyone have tweezers around?”
“I have!”, a guy shouted.
“I don’t gonna ask, why you have them, but please throw them to me!” He did it and after she caught it she used them to pull the little brown thing inside the bucket out of it.
“What do plants need to grow? Right! They need water!”
Fantasy gave a little glass with water and after putting Dreamy on the floor she poured the water on her.
Suddenly she started to grow and was soon restored. At last Fantasy brought a glass with a pink substance to Roxanne.
“Looks like jam, right?”
She put a finger into the substance and put it into her mouth.
“Smells like strawberry. Ok. Let’s restore her.”
She turned the glass around and the pink and sticky substance slowly came out of the glass. Soon it formed the shape of human legs.
“Oh, before she is ready, we better not leave her naked.”
Roxanne gave Majikku her cape, who held it in front of the substance, which was forming Marias body. She lifted it a bit and the people could see that her bare feet were already touching the wooden floor of the stage.
When the glass was finally empty Marias was nearly restored. Majikku held the cape down for a moment and she lifted it again, Maria suddenly was wearing her red high-heels again.
“Whoa, I’m back!. After this darkness, the lights seem so much brighter, but I have to do this again!”, Maria thought, when her head was finally finished.
When Majikku removed the cape completely Maria was in her red assistant clothes from before.
The music stopped and the lights were concentrated on the magician and her assistants.
“Wuhu. Finally time to talk to Roxanne! I’ll go with her backstage.”, Maria thought.
They all bowed to the audience, which was shouting, cheering etc.


“Again a nice show! What do you think Maria, was I good?”
“Misstress Roxanne, you were so incredible! Please let me be one of your assistants forever!”
“Woah! You surprise me. Follow me into my room and we can talk. Majikku, Dreamy and Fantasy! You can walk away. The manager of this establishment said that we are allowed to let our stuff here till tomorrow. Have fun!”
“Thank you boss!”
“Cool.”
“What about going out? I am sure that some bars are still open.”
Before they left Fantasy walked to Maria touched her on the shoulder and said: “You were great. I’d like to work with you in the future!”
“Cool. They already like me.”, Maria thought.

Later in Roxannes room:
“So you want to join our little group?”
“Yes, I’d love to!”
“Are there specific reasons?”
“Yes. I always wanted to be a magicians assistant, since I first saw a magic show!”
“This means you aren’t afraid and trust me no matter, which trick I want to try on you?”
“I am sure that you would never do anything really harmful, which can not be fixed with magic, so yes I trust you.”
“Wow, wonderful. There are only a few things, which have to be discussed. We will travel a lot, but every second month we stay in Las Vegas. Is this acceptable for you?”
“Um, I am sure I can handle this somehow. I am nineteen now. I am sure my parents will understand.”
“Ok, you must have awesome parents. We’ll see after the first few weeks. The last thing to do is tu fill in these sheets, but first, what do you think about this picture?”
Roxanne took a strange picture with many colours, which seemd to flow around and Maria suddenly felt strange.
“I will give you a few orders now.” “Yes,  Roxanne.”
“At first, you’ll call me Mistress, every time I have this necklace on my neck."
“Yes, mistress.”
“Ha, a new girl to fullfill my fantasies from before the show. I am sure we’ll have a lot of fun together.”
“From now on, you are going to love female feet, especially mine!”
“Yes, mistress. I love female feet and your feet are the feet of a goddess.”
“Wonderful. And from now on, every time you want to go outside a strong inner voice tells you not to put shoes on! This means you’ll always be barefoot inside and outside until I allow you to wear shoes.”
“Yes, mistress. I’ll always be barefoot, until you allow me to wear shoes.”
“Oh, and before I forget. When I put this necklace of, you won’t remember anything that happened during the time, I had it on.”
“Of course, mistress.”
“Well, then it’s fixed.”
Roxanne put her necklace inside a desk and Maria suddenly was back to normal.
“Here is a pen for filling in the contract.”, Roxanne told Maria, who was a bit confused.
“What?, Oh, sure, but please allow me to free my feet. I can't stand having them enclosed any longer. I hope it doesn’t bother you?”
“Ah my dear. This isn’t any problem.”
“Puh, thank you."
Maria threw her shoes away, leaving her smooth and slender feet bared.
"By the way I have to mention that you have the most beautiful feet I have ever seen, Miss Roxanne. I, I’d like to touch them so much.  Sorry that was inappropriate.”
“I don’t have a problem with it, but not this time. Please sign the contract now. You can touch my feet more often in the future, when you are working with me. I love footmassages.”
“Oh, sure.” Maria signed the contract and walked away.
She even forgot her high-heels and tights.

Mark was already waiting outside.
“Where have you been?”, he asked.
“I signed a contract and are now working as magical assistant!”, Maria shouted with happiness.
“You are what? Okay, we will talk about it at home. Um, and where are your shoes?”
“Hm, I don’t know. I don’t wear shoes anymore.”

Meanwhile a man was waiting outside the theatre. Finally a black woman appeared.
“Ah, I was waiting for you Dreamy, or I should I call you by your second name.”
“Better call me Nightmare, cause that’s what I am. Now let us go before Roxanne sees us.”
“Sure you can tell me everything, when we are in my apartment.”
They both sat into a black car with darkened windows and drove away.