Rorrim Dorian Bludworth had never in his entire unlife, said 'wheee.' Ever, ever, ever. He was much too fragile to participate in anything that would cause a monster to say 'wheee.' He would never set foot on a Skulltimate Roller Maze track, play a game of graveball or even get into an S-Boo-V that was being driven by Glen da West.
But...when his quest to find the end of the rainbow led Peggy and him to an inflated bouncy castle, the inhibition-dropping after effects of the funky rainbow tofu fluff were still in play, and Rory found himself thinking that no bouncy castle could go un-bounced.
"Wheee!"
"Wheee!" Peggy Springwell was noticing that her formerly stick-in-the-blood Disappearing Club partner had recently become a lot more fun and a lot less stick-like. Which was pretty clawesome. She hadn't made a ton of new friends at Monster High yet. And certainly none that she could share her epic, earth-shattering secret with!
"Stop! This! At! Once!"Heimdal, Peggy's familiar/pet/watcher/care-er, was being bounced everywhere, and his tiny stubby ram-legs could do nothing to stop him as he toppled, head over buns, every which way in the bouncy castle."This! Is! Undignified!"
Rory stopped bouncing.
"Woah. Your PET. Can TALK." He informed Peggy. Peggy sighed.
"I know, so annoying, right?"
"Urge to ram....rising..."Heimdal seethed as he struggled to stand up on the soft bouncyness of the bouncy castle. "Why are we in here anyways?! I thought you were on a quest!"
"THE QUEST." Rory suddenly remembered. The end of the rainbow! "Come on!!!"
Rory grabbed Peggy by the arm, they tumbled out of the bouncy castle and took off like a shot. Rory didn't even flinch when the walls of the cave started shaking as some squid monster punched them in the distance.
They pushed past some musicians (was that Marceline?), trekked over some instruments, and finally came to a stop.
"Here."Rory said, a little dizzily. The rainbow tofu fluff was really starting to get to him. "The end of the double rainbow!"
There, sitting on the floor of Jimi Hexdrix's specially-requested and scarefully-designed Green Doom, chewing on his absolutely-important-and-specified-in-his-rider green shag carpeting, was a fat rainbow pony.
"Poot."
The fat rainbow pony didn't SAY 'poot,' hexactly. But it definitely MADE a 'poot' sound, and when it did, its rainbow tail raised up, and two spectacular rainbows shot out of the fat pony.
Rory wiped away a tear.
"It's...beautiful...."
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:38 am
Draconia St George
"HUN OF UH HIHTCH!"
The bird acted quickly. He spun around and dove after the fleeing bones. You're odd luck ends here. The Fae thought grabbing the jaw with his feet. He may have been small- but the tiny sparrow pack the strength of about 50 other animals.
"Perhaps you should hold on to this." The sparrow suggested returning to the skeleton boy.
POOF
He returned to his normal form holding the skull bone in one hand.
Shadeaux "Shad" handed over the money to the small goblin behind one of the many booths serving drinks and he turned around to hand one of the two raspscary teas to his friend and guest, Lillith.
"Thank you." She accepted her drink and had a sip through the straw in the cup as she and her beast friend walked through the crowd, maneuvering around many of the monsters who had showed up for this event, and Shad avoiding the camera crews and press as best he could. (Flash photography yknow!)
Such a thing would perhaps have been unheard of here in Salem, Oregon not that long ago, had it not been for the ending of the enmity between the normie population and the teenage monsters of Monster High. Lillith had been behind some of the antagonistic feelings herself, until her good heart shown through and later, the very friendship between herself and Shad had been shaped -- all thanks to one of Shad's wrong turns. Why, now that their eyes roamed about, both Shad and Lillith could see a handful of normies in the crowd as well.
Hunh. Will wonders never cease?
"So," Lillith started to say casually as he hand slipped in the crook of Shad's arm. "When do you think the bands will start playing?"
"Hard to say."Shad said as he quickly ducked out of the way of a monster roving reporter seeking a monster interest story here and a flash going off, then rose again to continue walking in stride."These werecats are probably milking it for all its worth for 'the man." Gotta make the peeps enjoy the groove fill on before bringing the house down."
"Uh huh." Lillith frowned as she tried her best to decipher what Shad had just said. Even after all this time as his friend, sometimes that beatnik lingo -- lingered on.
Shad then added,"I did see that Daddy-O Hexdrix going around, shaking some of the other bands' hands."
"Really." Lillith blinked as they paused to sip at their drinks and looked about, and indeed she did see the famed warlock musician shaking the hand of a far off Skinwalker ghoul. "How odd. I always heard Jimi wasn't exactly the most sociable of monster celebrities."
"Well, learn something new every day."Shad mused as they moved along, but something strange was catching his eye as he watched Jimi move onto another monster in the previous band. He blinked, shook his head and then continued until he saw some familiar faces.
"Hey, there's one of the tripsters right now."
"The what?"
"Um, one of the bands?"
"Oh."
"I know these cool bros from school."Shad said as they started to approach the boo band formed by Kai, Dashner, Nero and Glen, all gathered around the destroyed remains of what looked to be a rather flamboyantly pink drum set. "You met Kai at Hometombing. Nero's been to the Krimson Dew a time or two (ha!) for the poetry readings. He told me he'd like to meet you so, no time like the present!"
"Nero..." Lillith stated. "Nero de Sphinx? Doesn't he fancy himself a ladies manster?"
Shad paused in thought and then moved on,"I think I heard rumor or two on the subject in the creepateria. Anyway... "
He slipped up behind the boos and tapped Kai on the shoulder, and being a Sackman, he had managed not to be seen or heard (for once avoiding his klutzy behavior) and Kai leapt at the touch...
"Yeep!" Kai reacted involuntarily.
"YIPE!"Shad reacted to Kai's reaction and jumped, landing in Nero's arms!
Shad cleared his throat as both boos looked somewhat uncomfortable, and Nero quickly set Shad down onto his sandaled feet and the timid shadow boo slipped back beside his beastie.
"Whoa, sorry Shad." Kai managed to get his tail back under control. "Didn't see you there. Glad you made it though!"
"Yeah, yeah." Shad fixed his beret and got his breathing under control. He then calmed himself by shifting the attention to someone else -- namely Lillith."You remember Lillith, Kai? Lilly, (as he called her affectionately as one fiend to another), this here is just a piece of my Galaxy. Werecats? This is Lillith Van Hellscream."
"Galaxy?" Kai whispered questioningly.
"Circle of fiends."Nero answered.
"Ah." Kai and Dashner spoke, and Kai's tail started rattling again. Even though she had proven herself at Tombcoming to be quite the opposite of the family name, Kai still had that nervous reaction anytime he heard the name Van Hellscream. Lillith arched a brow at him over her monocle and he grabbed his tail to settle it, giving her a slick smile.
"Whooooa!"Shad exclaimed, looking about at what used to be the drum set, now a pile of glittering shards beneath a large, sharp rock."What happened to your axe!?"
"Axe?" Glen looked to Nero.
"The drum set."His large bluddy answered."Axe means instrument."
Glen gave two thumbs up (Grumpy Bat couldn't have cared less) and turned back to Shad and said forlornly,"No clue! It was on loan from my aunty and I gave it a test clang and BOOM! Instant meltdown!"
"Speaking of meltdown..."Shad was then staring at the four boos present. He looked from one to the other, gazing at each in an almost uncomfortable but of silence."Who jacked your karma?"
"This time all three boos, and Lillith, looked to Nero who sighed,"Who broke our auras."
"Ahhh..." The four stated.
"What do you mean broke our, er, jacked our karma?" Kai asked.
By now, Shad had lifted his trademark shades slightly from his eyes to get a better look, and the boos and Lillith saw his black and red eyes squinting against the light, even the meager light offered deep down in the catacombs. He slipped his shades back over his eyes and shook his head.
Shad exclaimed."I've never seen auras as out of what as what you guys have!"
"You can read auras?"Glen asked.
"He's a Sackman." Lillith answered, as if that alone should explain everything. "They're extremely sensitive to light on all spectrums. Including auras."
Shad nodded,"Every monster has a color to all their own, y'dig?"He pointed to Nero."Orange." He pointed to Kai."Violet."He pointed to Dashner."Red."He looks to Glen."Yellow."
He then removed his shades and closed his eyes, pinching at the bridge of his nose."But they are totally out of whack, like they've got storm clouds all over them! I've heard of blocked chakras but you werecats take the cake!"
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:38 pm
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"..."
'I didn't mean to startle you.'
"There...you...are..."A slightly out-of-breath Draconia finally caught up to where Skelly and Damyn were standing. She was absolutely definitely never wearing 7-inch heels into the Catacombs ever again.
"Draconia!"Skelly hexclaimed, after quickly slipping his jawbone back into place."I'm sorry this date has been so crazy. There's this squid, and he keeps chasing me-"
"FINALLY GOT YOU!"The Security Squid suddenly appeared in front of the trio!"Now! Give back Grumpy Bat!"
"NOW SEE HERE!"Draconia suddenly piped up. She'd had QUITE enough of these interruptions of her weekend, QUITE enough of his bellowing and MORE than quite enough of these wild accusations. Draconia was a quiet ghoul.
A shy ghoul.
A retiring, passive, easy-to-get-along with ghoul.
But when she got angry, her temperature rose right along with her temper...and her temper was flaring up right now.
"You may be a security guard at the Maul, Mr...Mr. Matt-"Draconia poked his name tag."-but this is NOT the Maul, and to go around screaming wild accusations at Skelly - at ANY monster - with no proof is a violation of his rights as an unliving being!"
Smoke was pouring out of Draconia's nostrils. Grumpy Matt, who, as a water-based monster was not the biggest fan of smoke and what it usually indicated, backed off a step.
"I not want any trouble! I just want Grumpy Bat!"
"That brings me to ANOTHER thing!"Draconia wagged a foreclaw at the security squid."That little bat maybe an internet celebrity, but it is STILL just a little bat, and even if for Arthur-knows-what reason it IS in these catacombs, running around screaming and punching walls is utterly disruptive to such a delicate creature, notwithstanding all of the OTHER creatures here you've knocked over, trampled on or otherwise disturbed!"
"Woah."Skelly nudged Damyn. "Look at that! She's sparking!"
Indeed, not only were angry words spilling out of Draconia's mouth, but flames were, too. Grumpy Matt cringed a bit and backed away from the heat, his leg-tentacles inching him closer towards the bands and further away from Draconia's fiery wrath.
"If you had come in here and RESPECTFULLY asked Harry Herne for some time at the microphone, maybe you could have POLITELY informed everyone here that you were looking for Grumpy Bat and that if anymonster had seen her they could come and speak to you, but NO, you had to BULLY your around!"
Grumpy Matt straightened up.
"I not bull! I Grumpy Bat's number one fan! I find her, and I become hero to the interwebs! You no can stop me!"
Draconia's eyes narrowed.
"You're not a bull..."She said, her temperature cooling.
She pointed behind Grumpy Matt. "But HE is."
"RKOOUTTANOSCARE!!!!!" Grumpy Matt turned around just as Randy Goreton, the monster wrestling federation's most feared minotaur and an internet sensation himself, launched himself into the air, grabbed Grumpy Matt and slammed him to the ground in his signature finishing move.
Grumpy Matt bounced in a crazy, rubbery-squid way and came to a stop against a wall, stunned. Randy Goreton dusted off his hands and gave a little pose to the crowd of iCoffins recording another #rkoouttanoscare moment for the ages.
"Best...Fearstival...EVER!"Manny Taur hexclaimed as he uploaded his video to Whine, Grimblr, Fiercebook and every other social media platform he could.
"Hm. In a way, I guess Mr. Matt got what he wanted..."Now cooler and collected, Draconia turned her iCoffin to Damyn and Skelly. It showed what was trending on Skitter.
Draconia offered one arm to Damyn, and the other to Skeletorrence.
"Now, shall we actually enjoy this fearstival, fellows? Or is there any other catastrophic luck that wants to have its say with us?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:40 pm
Draconia St George
MEANWHILE....
"Oh, no you don't...nobody gives Wyvernia St. George the brush-off!" Wyvernia St. George stuck her microphone in her back pocket, rolled up her sleeves and took off after Harry Herne. She'd dealt with spoiled royalty before. She'd interviewed Lord Stoker of the Londoom Vampire clan several times and had even made him break a sweat. She'd sailed coast of Ghosta Rica to interview Lord Fathom of the Krakens when he'd been in a bad mood - and his mood controlled the weather!
Fluttering her wings to rise up above the chaos, Wyvernia spotted Harry hiding somewhere behind Clawsby, Kills, Gnash and Tongue.
"Mr. Herne!" Wyvernia called to him as she dove down from above."Hiding will not protect you from the all-seeing eyes of the media! What comments can you give on the record about Woestock?!"
*rrrrrrrumbllllllleeeeee*
"And what do you have to say about the structural integrity of this cavern?!"
"GAH! NOT CRUEL, NOT CRUEL AT ALL!"
Harry panicked and a pack from the Wild Hunt formed above Wyvernia. Gravity took over and the Wild Hunt crashed into Wyvernia. In turn, Wyvernia could no longer maintain lift and the mass of dragon ghoul and friendly puppies crashed down into Harry and several bands. A voice drifted out of the dogpile.
"I give up...someone go on...anyone...boo-sic needs to be made for the BOJANGLES..."
Word spread hackstage that the bands should try to play. A few didn't even bother while some valiantly attempted to make a go at it. Voices were lost, instruments imploded, and several backup singers were sucked into the NeverNever. Finally, it was time for Kai's band to play. A smirking Hexdrix waited for them to boo-mb like everyone else had....
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:47 pm
Kai's face was utterly blank. He understood barely any of the words floating around him.
"Blahblah aura, blahblah chakra, blah blah blah de blah blah-"
Then, he did hear something he understood. Something that made his pointed genetically-modified-werecat ears perk up. It was a stageclaw shouting wildly.
"BOO BAND! WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS! GET ON THE STAAAAAGE!"
Whatever other inane chatter was going on around the four boos seemed to melt away into nothingness. This was IT. Their ACTUAL CHANCE. To finally perform!
Off to the side, the skipping howlogram of Roswell Gray gave a particularly hexcited-seeming pelvic thrust. Kai's eyes got misty and he wiped away a monstrous tear.
"After all the terrible luck we've had...it's finally going to happen!"
"Oh no....no, no, no no!"Nero groaned. This was the worst luck ever! How could this be? Every time a sliver of hope had appeared - the malfunctioning howlogram, the smashed drum set, the fact that Dashner Hawke's keytar amplifier had somehow been struck by a pie and shorted out JUST THIS VERY MOMENT...None of it was going to keep them from performing!
Nero twitched. It was almost as if his own rotten luck was somehow countermanding his band-mates bad luck!
But of course, that was impossible.
"Shoot. My amp just died...or should I say, 'pie-d.'" Dashner moaned."I guess I'll just have to play that baby grand piano that's on stage instead."
"Bummer!" Kai consoled his brutha with a pat on the back. "Too bad there's no hextra drum set for Glen."
Nero almost seemed hopeful. But then Glen sadly tapped a drumstick against one of the stalagtites that had fallen from the ceiling.
*tap tap*
"Hmm?"
*tap tappity tap bing bang bong*
"Hey!"Glen drummed against the stalactite's broken topped surfaces, jamming his head up and down with the prodigious sounds ringing out from them. "Not bad! I guess you could call that...REAL ROCK and roll!"
In an instant, stageclaw goblins grabbed the drum-crushing stalactites and put them up on stage in place of the drum set. Kai grabbed the Roswell Gray howlogram and turned it so the alien's profile appeared up on the stage.
"C'mon, Nero! Let's do this!" Kai called to his bluddy, and the boos ran (or in Nero's case, were perhaps ever-so-slightly shoved) onstage.
"GHOULS AND MANSTERS!" Glen cried out. "We are....uh....WE ARE DKNG! Dashner, Kai, Nero and Glen! And we're here to-"
Glen smashed a stick against a stalactite.
"ROCK ON!"
The strike against the makeshift drum made the walls r-r-r-rumble again...but this time it was drowned out by hopeful applause from the gathered Woestock crowd.
Kai grinned ear to ear. They were going to do it! They were going to sing-
"Wait a second!"
Kai suddenly turned to the rest of the band, his normally gray face turning a whiter shade of pale.
Damyn blinked a bit. His blank expression showing slight signs of confusion. Instead of taking Draconia's arm he tilted his head silently. "..."
'We cannot say for sure whether or not this odd luck will continue...
The Fae looked around- then turned back with a nod and a faint smile. "...?"
'But we shouldn't let that stop us, yes?'
As he decided to join the Dragon and the Skeleton, The socially inept Fae kept his hands in his pockets.. And hope this chaos hadn't affected Arillena.
~
But of course. It had.
From her left shoulder down The blonde Fae's arm had morphed beyond it's original appearance. It was as if her skin had hardened into thick scaly feathers and someone had sharpened her claws to make a sewing needle jealous.
"Oh dear..." The changeling repeated. The last time she'd taken this appearance- well, she couldn't remember. If any thing she was lucky that she still had control over the arm. Could she ignore it? No one else seemed too bothered by it-
Then again they were all focusing on their own issues. She noticed Kai's band was up- but why hadn't they started yet? Arillena decided it'd be selfish if she only worried about herself. Her problem was nothing compared to all the craziness around her. After taking a deep breath she turned back her band mates along with everyone having difficulty.
"Does...Um... Does anyone need help?" She managed to say over the noise. Ari awkwardly hugged her reverse glamoured arm close.
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 6:35 am
The boos all froze, looking toward one another as stage panic set in slowly but surely. Here they were, onstage in front of hundreds of spooktators, and they had no material!
"I knew we forgot something..."Glen rambled on as Grumpy Bat fluttered from his hand and perched herself on one of the crystals of the stone column he was to be using for his makeshift drum set.
Kai's eyes were wide as his tail rattled uncontrollably, staring out at the masses who were waiting for the performance to begin. Unseen in those very masses was the warlock trickster, Jimi Hexdrix, smiling with smug satisfaction at the chaos he had just caused one of his competitive acts.
As each of the boos found their instruments pushed into their claws by their goblin assistants, the nervousness was compounded by the fact that Nero had just spotted Wyvernia St. George and her news crew weaving their way closer to the stage. He gritted his teeth and spoke out of the side of his mouth,"Grimcoming!"
"What do we do?"Dashner asked, his wings fluttering with nerves at their predicament.
"Wing it?"Glen asked as his eyes fell on the little bat and grimsperation struck him.
The other three boos turned to him with looks that asked silently if their little bluddy was crazy -- but that is a theory for an entirely different day.
"What?" Nero pointed at the Grumpy Bat with his claw."Take grimspiration where you can get it!"
Dash, Kai and Nero watched as Glen started to tap at the crystals with the drum sticks, somehow using their sound vibrations to kick start a melody. One by one, Kai, Nero and Dashner picked up with their own grimstruments, and their sound weaved in with Glen's.
Jimi frowned. What was going on? This was unacceptable! Their bad luck -- somehow the way their bad luck clashed with each one individually was canceling itself out with these boos in particular as a group...!
Nero started to sing,"Written in these cavern walls are the stories that I can't explain I leave my black heart open but it stays empty for days She told me she don't feel the same about us in her bones Seems to me that when I undie these words will be written on my stone..."
They sing together, somehow, someway, picking up the others' words as one,"And you'll be gone, gone tonight The ground beneath your wings is open wide The way that Glen's been holding on too tight With nothing in between"
Glen sang,"The story of my unlife I wanna take you home I fly all night To keep you warm And time is frozen (the story of, the story of) The story of my unlife I give you hope I spend your grump Until you're broke Inside The story of my unlife (the story of, the story of)"
By now, the attendees of Woestock are swaying to the boosic and you can practically see the steam rising from Jimi's ears while a ghoul or two practically swoons as the rhythmic, impromptu beat of this boo band...
Dashner sang,"Written on these walls are the colors that I can't change Leave my heart open but it stays right here in its cage I know that in the mourning now I see us in the light upon a hill Although I am broken, my heart is untamed, still"
Grumpy Bat fluttered off of her perch on the stone and landed on another rock, directly in front of Kai and Nero, looking absolutely miserable as the ghouls offstage called put to them. Grumpy just yawned.
The group sang together,"And you'll be gone, gone tonight The fire beneath our feet is burning bright The way that we been holding on so tight With nothing in between"
Kai sang, "The story of your unlife To take you home We'd drive all night To keep you warm And time is frozen (the story of, the story of) The story of your unlife I give you hope To spend your grump Until you broke Inside The story of your unlife (the story of, the story of)"
Dashner sang again,"And we been waiting for this time to come around But Grumpy running after you is like chasing the clouds"
The group then sang,"The story of your unlife To get you home We'd drive all night To keep you warm And time is frozen The story of your unlife We give her hope (give her hope) We spend her grump Until she's broke (until she's broke inside) Inside The story of her unlife (the story of, the story of)
The story of her unlife The story of her unlife (the story of, the story of) The story of her unlife"
The makeshift, totally made-up-on-the-spot song ended and all four boos stared offstage for the crowd's response...
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:25 pm
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"Does...Um... Does anyone need help?" She managed to say over the noise. Ari awkwardly hugged her reverse glamoured arm close.
Yes! Yes, I need help!
That was what Atomica wanted to say to Arillena, the only other member of the band who didn't seem petrified by all of the chaos that was reigning down among the musical talent.
Somewhere, off in the distance, Atomica heard another monster shout.
"NOW WE'RE JUST KILLS AND TONGUE! Gnash spontaneously combusted too!"
Out in front, on the stage, it sounded like the boos from Monster High were...actually...unbelievably....sounding NOT TERRIBLE. Atomica buried her face in her hands. That was IMPOSSIBLE. Were her logic circuits frying, too?!
That would probably explain why her ocular scanners (meaning, her eyes) kept seeing Arillena's appearance shifting. Like right now, she seemed to have the most hextreme, outrageous, totally rockin' left arm attached to her otherwise pale, non-hextreme, non-outrageous rest of her body.
"Woah, frighteous arm!" Lin hexclaimed, pointing at Arillena's strange mutation."How do I get me one'a those?"
"Squearkk!" Atomica suddenly pointed behind Lin. Things were about to get MUCH worse. With the DKNG band performing so well on stage, it appeared that the suddenly-detangled-from-Harry-Herne Wyvernia St. George had turned her attention towards trying to get interviews in the backstage area.
"Hello! I'm Wyvernia St. George, from Moaning Tea with Wyvernia! Could I get a few words from Atomica and the Rest In Peace? Tonight, you're supposed to co-headline with Jimi Hexdrix. Are you ready to go on?"
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 2:20 pm
Atomica Servo
Arillena wasn't sure how to respond to Lin's excitement over what she thought of as a curse. Before she could come up with an answer The Fae registered something in the Lights of her metallic friends eyes. An unfamiliar Dragoness started talking at them very quickly. In the chaos it didn't seem like any one was prepared to answer questions-
Wait. Why wasn't Arillena in a hysterical panic right now?
Now that she thought about it. Had this insanity surrounded only days ago she'd be cowering in a corner waiting for it all to end. What was so different now? The threatening instability of her glamour acting up as well as the mocking voice in her head weren't helping- but they weren't hurting anything either.
The wheel of personalty/confidence spun in her head and the Changeling felt herself moving towards the speechless Atomica and the quick talking Wyvernia. The wheel stopped and With a bright smile Arillena waved her out of place claw to catch the reporter's attention. The Fae's eyes had turned a shade of pink. "Hello!~ Our Awesome Band Leader Atomica is savin' her Rockin' voice for the stage, But I can answer any questions you might have?" She chirped, her accent weaving in and out of her voice. Once again it was as if a personality switch was flipped in the Fae ghouls head.
"Who are you?" "Arillena FaeDathanna," She curtsied. "One of the newest members of Atomica and the Rest In Piece."
Nero didn't know what to do, so he just kept going. He kept waiting for the wince that never came.
Glen was four keys sharp as usual but somehow this time Kai was exactly four keys flat and they canceled each other out into a perfect bro harmony. Every time Glen missed a stalactite he wound up matching the counter beat perfectly. Holobro kept fitzing out on a pitch perfect C.
This couldn't be happening!
Grumpy Bat starred at them grumpily. Behind her, ghouls were waving their iCoffins in time to the beat. With great annoyance, Grumpy Bat flew on top of Nero's head and made the most apathetic "mew" Nero could almost hear over their first song.
As the song ended none of them quite knew how to stop so they sort of petered off...into the most perfect instrumental fade Nero had ever heard outside of a 10 hour studio session.
The crowd. Went. Nuts.
Nero compulsively flexed and grinned.
"We...we...were...GOOD," he gasped, barely able to make himself say the words.
But uh oh. There, in the middle of the crowd, was the security squid. And he was starring right at Nero. The ghouls in the crowd surged forward, and beneath the wave, the squid ominously disappeared.
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:43 pm
"That-was-clawesome!" Kai tried to call out to his bandmates as ghouls started swarming the stage. He knew - he just KNEW that once they actually played an entire song, everything would work out.
Suddenly, a thought struck Kai.
A panicky thought.
A not-good-at-all-why-didn't-he-think-of-this-before thought.
"You guys!" He called out as they were swept from the stage. "Did anyone write any of that song down?! Or record it? Or anything? Hello?!!!"
"I recorded it on my iCoffin!"A single voice called out from the crowd."Oh, wait...that was my thumb."
"I totally uploaded it to Grimblr!"Another monster called out."But for some reason the sound didn't work?" "Who CARES it was perfect LETS CRUSH THEM BENEATH OUR FANNISH GLEE~"Somemonster else shrieked out.
What was that song about again? How did the melody go? Kai tried to remember the perfect storm of notes and words they'd crafted, but in the fury of fangirls (FANGIRLS!~) it was fading away...fading...gone forever!
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Backstage...
Jimi Hexdrix was seething. Some boo band from Monster High was trying to show him up! Why didn't the hex work!? Unless...they were normally awful and the hex pulled a 180 and made them good?
"I will hang them all along the witchtower! BOB! I NEED YOU!"
All the gold that the Herne brat promised them would be his. Bob the Goon Roadie would have to take care of those brats while he performed. Bob came hustling over.
"Yea, Booss?
"Take Lawrence and Terence to grab that boo band. The gold will be all mine! And start intimidating everyone else into not performing."
"Right, Booss!"
Hexdrix was taking the stage next no matter what. With that ghoul band hexed, Jimi Hexdrix would have all the attention....and gold!
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:18 pm
"Rory, I don't think there will be a pot of gold or anything at...the...end..."
Peggy stared at the fat pooting pony.
"....because there is a fat pooting rainbow pony. Like one has."
Peggy stared at the fat pony. The fat pony stared at Peggy.
"It's like he's staring into my soul."
A half a second passed and then...
"I WANT TO POKE THAT FAT PONY!"
Peggy launched herself at the pony finger first, wildly poking at it. The pony snorted and started scooting away from Peggy at top speed. To the pony's credit, it moved faster than one thought a butt-scooting fat pony could move. Peggy was distracted by a commotion outside the door. Reluctantly, she stuck her head out of the room to see Jimi Hexdrix directing his roadies to hold all the talent backstage. The Boo Band belonging to Kai was hustled into the group and Jimi smiled evilly.
"The stage is now MINE...along with all your fees."
Peggy's eyes narrowed as Hexdrix strolled on to the stage. Something had to be done. Harry Herne was a jerk but he went to her school and she would protect her school!
"Uh, Rory...I need to go over to the town hall to make sure Harry filed the proper permits. Play with the pony or something. Heimdal, stay here."
The little ram hopped up in down in anger as Peggy snagged her bulging backpack and slipped from the room.
"YOU COME BACK HERE, LITTLE MISSY! I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!"
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 9:08 am
Damyn Faolan
"Who are you?" "Arillena FaeDathanna," She curtsied. "One of the newest members of Atomica and the Rest In Piece."
I hope I can buy everyone time this way....
Draconia, Damyn and Skelly had been on the edges of the crowd listening to the boo band play. The song had been really good, but before they could start a second one, it looked like fans had swarmed the stage and some rather burly roadie monsters had pulled the boos to safety.
"I suppose this means Atomica and the RIP are next, right? With Jimi Hexdrix?!"Draconia asked. Skelly, not wanting to tempt fate with answering, merely nodded. It looked like the stage was being prepped for Jimi...the roadie monsters were sweeping up and preparing several ornate guitars and a fire pit.
Being a good head taller than most ghouls, Draconia was able to see beyond the stage towards where the RIP were standing, in front of most of the panicking acts. To her mild surprise, her sister was there, grimterviewing them. Well...it was more like she was grimterviewing one member in particular, and to Draconia's surprise, it WASN'T Atomica Servo.
"Goodness, it sounds like you've covered a lot of ground for only being a band for less than 24 hours!"Wyvernia was speaking to Arillena, tilting her microphone towards the Fae, whose confidence was seeming to bloom with each question. Meanwhile, Atomica slinked further into the background."How has it been, fanging out with such famous bands as Clawsby, Kills, Gnash and Tongue and Jimi Hexdrix?"
"OH MY GHOUL!"Someone in the background shouted. "NOW KILLS HAS SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTED TOO! I'M A SOLO ACT NOW!"
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