Is this good/creative?

For English class, our assignment was to write a creative paragraph with the theme of "the circus" and use the following Beowulf vocabulary words: scabbard, hilt, moors, hoary, unsheathed, kinship, reparation, mail, to purge, and reprisal. This is mine...it's just supposed to be creative or whatever, I don't know. Tell me what you think! Thanks a ton.

I have been to the circus only one time in my life. I was nine years old, and I didn閳ユ獩 even want to go. My dad took my brother and me just to purge his conscience, since he felt guilty about not doing things with us very often. He said the trip was to strengthen our kinship so we would be a closer family, but really he was taking us in reparation of all the things he hadn閳ユ獩 done with us in the past. As soon as we got there, I knew it would be an interesting day. We had driven to the middle of nowhere, and the tent was set up in the middle of the moors! It wasn閳ユ獩 your typical colorful circus tent, either. Instead, it was this horrible hoary color, some type of white-gray mix. There were two clowns standing outside the tent, both wearing coats of mail. They looked more like knights than clowns. As we approached, the clown with the orange hair produced a sword from behind his back. It was still in the scabbard, so he unsheathed it and sliced the air with it. My family and I stopped, because we were scared to get any closer. The other clown, the one with the purple and green hair, reached over and grabbed the hilt of the sword, ripping it from the orange-haired clown閳ユ獨 hands. He proceeded to wave the sword in his face as a taunting. In reprisal, the orange-haired clown tackled the clown with purple and green hair, and the whole thing erupted into a sword fight, right there in front of the circus tent! My dad decided this was just too weird, and we went home. That evening on the news, there was a report on the news about the armor-clad clowns we had seen. They were not clowns after all; they were homeless men who intended to steal money from anyone who came to the 閳ユ竷ircus.閳?The real circus had once been in that location, but it had left the week before, something these two men knew and apparently used to their advantage. Their costumes were a mix of items left behind from not only the circus, but also the medieval festival a few weeks ago before. The knowledge that we were so close to getting conned by a couple of homeless men really put a damper on the excitement of the circus for me.

Is this good/creative?

Wow, was that a true story? Ha!

This is really cool. I just wouldn't use "as a taunting" -- it sounds awkward. Try rephrasing it, like "He taunted the orange haired clown by waving the sword in his face."