There were plenty in the audience who wanted to leave Tayla and Jayla as ballerina teddy bears, and plenty who wanted to make them human again.
Before a consensus could be reached however, there was a dissenter. A mid thirties year old man, with slicked back black hair, a thin mustache, wearing a Hawaiian shirt. "FRAUD! FRAUD! FAKE! P.U.! You stink! That's supposed to be hypnotism!? That's stage magic with some puppets! FRAUD!"
Normally he'd have been ignored, but the ring master did have his integrity. And Tayla and Jayla glared daggers at the man as much as their cute little faces could.
"You there good sir!" The ring master pointed his stick. "Am I correct in assume, you believe this is not true hypnosis, and just cheap parlor tricks?"
"I don't 'believe'! I'm calling it as I see it! That purple smoke was too obvious!"
"Very well good sir! Why don't YOU come and be hypnotized into something like Tayla and Jayla? No smoke bombs! You have my word!"
The jerk wasn't about to chicken out, in particular when the ring master's words were obviously a bluff meant to scare away the wusses. The jerk practically leapt out of his seat, climbing over the barrier between the audience and the ring, and marched over the ring master.
"Now good sir," the ring master said politely, "What is your name?"
"Tony!"
"Ah! Well, with a name like that, I'm sure you can guess what to turn you into, but as is tradition with this circus, we'll let the audience decide."
"Monkey!" "Tiger!" "Weasel!" "Rat!" "Tiger!" "Turtle!" "Clown!" Strong man!" "Tiger!" "Tiger!" "Tiger!"
"Well, it's safe to say what our audience wants..." The ring master said.
Tony did wonder how the fraud was gonna make the switch without the smoke bombs, there was no way this was part of the planned act was it?
"Now Tony, look at the silver sphere."
Tony shrugged and looked at it, but without the curiosity the twins had.
Unlike many things, disinterest and skepticism actually could increase resistance to hypnosis, it was all in the mind after all, but that was what reverse psychology was for.
"Now I'm not sure I can't hypnotized you Tony. So don't think about being hypnotized. Don't think about the silver sphere... don't think about the swirling, don't think about the colors, don't try to figure out what colors they might be. Don't focus on them at all. Don't be caught in the spiral. Don't feel sleepy. Don't feel tired. Don't think about how heavy your eyelids are. Yes, you don't want to think about your things at all do you Tony? So just empty your head, and you won't have to think about them at all..."
Tony stared, now completely entranced by the ball's colorful spinning playing off in his eyes.
"Now Tony, how about we put some thoughts back in there? And since you're such an observant and intelligent person, anything you think must so obviously be correct, yes? So let's help you with those thoughts. What you hear, is what you are thinking, there is no difference between them. You said that Tayla and Jayla weren't changed, and since you were like them in the audience, you must be like them now yes? A furry little cutie. You must short and young like them, aren't you? You must be stuffed with fluff like them, aren't you? You must have beady little glass eyes like them yes? Oh, but you're special aren't you Tony? After all, you were the only one not fooled weren't you? So you must be different from Tayla and Jayla somehow. Oh yes, you're a TIGER! A fluffy stuffed tiger! Strong, tough, and an all around great guy!"
As the ring master spoke, Tony changed... orange and black stripped fur covered most of his body, white fur covering his chest, hands and feet. His hands and feet became paws. His eyes became beady pieces of glass. His bones, muscle and internal organs became cotton, but still alive and capable of self locomotion. His body shrank, while his head was relatively bigger, a white muzzle formed, along with pointy ears on top of his head with a white inside... and of course... a stripped orange and black tail. Tony's clothes meanwhile, mostly vanished, his shirt morph into a vague Tarzan outfit that cut off at the waste, a stripped tiger wearing spots.
The audience ooh'ed and ahh'ed at the feat of magic.
"Now then! Tony! Why don't give the audience a show of your own!"
Tony, never wanting to throw away a chance to show off, did exactly that. Clowns hurried on stage, providing a car, a fire hydrant, a shopping cart, and a mail box. And before the audience's eyes, Tony lifted them all up, tossed them in the air, and began juggling them!
The feat of superman strength was humorously confirmed as Tony put down the heavy objects, and the clowns came back, and humorously mimed trying to lift them but, only for Tony to lift them up, and the clowns with them!
The audience laughed and clapped at the same time. Tony loved everyone finally seeing how great he really was at last!
"Now then my audience! Before we were so rudely interrupted! I leave the choice entirely in your hands, shall we change Tony and the twins back to the lives they had? Or should they continue to enjoy the lives they have? Or maybe just the twins, or Tony? What do you say audience?"