Thanks to everyone who supported my first story, which now has over 3500 views. This story will be following Luna mainly and Lincoln finds something out about his older sister that he didn't know before. There's no real drama in this story, it's just another one of the various adventures in the Loud House. There will only be two parts to this story. Stay tuned for the second one, it will be coming before the end of the week hopefully.

Part One

The day started with promise. A single ray of sunshine came through the window and spread itself over the bed-sheet. Luna woke up and stretched her arms, looking over at her sister's bed to see if she had woken up yet. Suddenly realizing what the day held, Excitement filled the air, despite only one person being awake. Both Rita and Lynn Sr had recently gotten work bonuses and it was up to the kids to decide what to do with them and today was the day to do it, however, they had to agree on what to do first. If they couldn't, then they wouldn't go anywhere. Luna knew she had a lot of work to do if she wanted to go to that rock festival.

Jumping out of her bed, she sped downstairs to see if anyone else had woken up yet. No one yet. Perfect. Normally, everyone would be up right now, but since it was still summer and there were a few weeks until school started, no one had a reason to, except Luna. She made herself some breakfast and immediately started thinking of how she was going to convince her other siblings to go to the festival. It wasn't going to be an easy task, but if she was going to be able to do what she wanted, it would all be worth it.

Lincoln woke up right after Luna did and shuffled downstairs to find some planning paper sprawled across the kitchen table with notes written down on them, as well as some half finished pop-tarts sitting on a small glass plate. Confused, he looked around for a while, not seeing anyone else at first, until he heard some footsteps coming from behind. Thinking it was Lynn, he instinctively ducked, trying to avoid a football that wasn't there, only to find Luna towering over him instead.

"What are you doing bro?"

"Oh thank goodness, I thought you were Lynn!" Luna smirked, understanding what he was doing now.

"What's all this?" Lincoln asked.

"You know how Mom and Dad recently got that work bonus? Well, there's this huge music festival that's going on and they're going to be hosting some pretty awesome bands. Smooch is going to be there too bro!"

Lincoln's face lit up. "Really?! They are?!"

"Yup, and if you can help convince me to get everyone else on board with it, then I'll help you get front row seats! And, I'll let you sit in the sweet spot on the way there."

Lincoln didn't need any more convincing. He was hooked when she said that Smooch was going to be there. However, little did they know that as they were talking, the rest of their siblings woke up and started listening in on the conversation. They all had their own things they wanted to do, and were all prepared to make sure that no one else messed up their plans.

"I don't want to go to some stupid music convention!" Lola told them, taking them by surprise.

"But it'll be fun!" Luna tried to convince her, finally collecting her thoughts.

"No. I wanna see a real Beauty Pageant! That's what we're doing."

"A beauty Pageant? Please... There's a scientific gathering at the local museum that I would much rather attend."

Everyone started chiming in now, they were all awake and arguing among themselves.

"I wanna go the the mall!"

"I wanna go to Dairy Land!"

"I want to go to the Funeral home."

"I wanna play in the mud!"

"I'd like to do some camping. Because things are getting real... In-Tents!"

"Guys?"

"Mall!"

"Beauty Pageant!"

"Museum!"

"Dairy Land!"

Immediately, they all broke into a fight.

"What's going on?!" Lynn Sr. asked as the fight moved to the living room.

"From what I've heard, they're fighting over what they want to do today."

"Well, better put a stop to it." A deafening whistle echoed throughout the house and then the kids all instantly froze in their spots. "Alright! Until you can all agree on what we're going to do, we are not leaving this house! Now go to your rooms until you're ready to come up with some sort of compromise!"

The kids all groaned and slowly started dragging themselves upstairs. Luna thought that she had the upper hand by waking up before anyone else did, but once again, the unpredictable nature of the loud house proved her wrong, as it did every single time. She really wanted to go to that festival and had even convinced Lincoln to want to go as well, but now, it seemed that there was no way any of them would make an agreement on something.

Slumping on her bed, Luna pulled out her laptop and started surfing the web. Too bummed to play her guitar, she looked up some videos that she had really enjoyed watching. Maybe these would help cheer her up. Maybe they would even help to come up with some ideas for a compromise.

Lincoln, despite wanting to go see smooch, was not as disappointed as Luna was. He just shrugged it off and went back to his room to read some comics and play some video games. But there was something that was nagging at the back of his mind. Something just didn't feel right. What was it? It bothered him until he finally figured out what it was. Luna wasn't playing her guitar like she normally does. Everything else had been pretty much the same. It was still as loud as it always was, but without his rocking sister playing her guitar, it was a different kind of loud that Lincoln just couldn't stand. Was she really this bummed about not being able to go to that festival?

Lincoln, being the loving, caring, brother that he was, couldn't stand knowing that any of his sisters might be sad. So, expecting the worst, he got up and left the room, closing the door on the way out. The walk to her room seemed to take forever. Treading the rough, rugged, smelly terrain that was the carpet, day after day, took it's toll on his bare feet, but finally, the only boy arrived at Luna and Luan's room.

There was just a moment of sheer terror. A bucket full of water that had been carefully placed on top of the door, tipped just enough to splash a few drops of water on Lincoln's shoulder. Reacting instinctively, he jumped forwards into a somersault, narrowly avoiding being soaked by another one of Luan's pranks. Naturally, he looked over to her bed with a glare on his face, only to find it empty. This caught him off guard, but he wasn't totally surprised. Some kind of water related joke generally followed up something like this and the silence was slightly stunning, yet at the same time, relieving.

Lincoln looked over to the other bed in the room and found his sister, sitting up in bed with her legs crossed and her laptop on the bed. She had a focus to her that he had never seen before. All sorts of weird hand gestures were taking place and occasionally a smile broke the seriousness. All that being said, Luna didn't seem to be upset at all. If anything, she was more upbeat than ever. This took him by surprise, as he was expecting to see a depressed Luna Loud just laying there on the bed. Lincoln, curious to see what could be holding her sister's attention so much as to distract her from playing her guitar, walked over to the bed and looked at the laptop screen, only to find on it, one of the last things he expected. A marching band.

"Whassup bro?"

"What are you watching?" Lincoln asked, almost embarrassed that his older sister, not only was willingly watching a marching band, but seemed to enjoy it.

"It's a drum corps bro."

"It just looks like marching band to me."

"I mean... yeah, it's like... it's basically a professional marching band."

"Really? I didn't even know that they had those..."

"Yeah, a lot of people don't."

Lincoln wasn't actually that surprised that professional marching band was an actual thing. After living in a house with ten other sisters, nothing really surprised him anymore.

"I thought you only liked rock music..."

"Naw bro... I like all kinds of music. I can listen to just about anything."

"Really?"

"Yeah, rock just happens to be my favorite genre of music."

Lincoln was astounded and bewildered. He never expected this from his sister. He came in here thinking something was wrong, only to find that she was having the time of her life, watching a marching band of all things.

"Wanna take a listen?" she asked.

Lincoln shrugged his shoulders and jumped up on top of the bed right as Luna jumped off. He moved over until on the side that was closest to the wall. Even though the video was paused, there was something almost mesmerizing about it. It wasn't like a normal high school marching band, this was different.

Luna came back to the bed with another set of headphones and what looked like a headphone splitter. She then took her own headphones and unplugged them from the computer, then plugged them, as well as the other set of headphones, into the splitter. Then, plugging the splitter into the computer, she went to Youtube and searched, "Carolina Crown 2015." A few search results popped up and Luna scrolled down until finding the best one.

"Inferno?" Lincoln asked.

"Trust me dude. This is, in my opinion, the best marching show I've ever seen."

"Oh... Okay."

Lincoln didn't seem to be impressed. It was just a marching band. What could possibly be cool about that. However, when she started turning the volume on the computer all the way up, Lincoln started looking worried for fear of going deaf. She just looked at him with a nearly devilish grin on her face, then looked back towards the computer. Starting the video, Lincoln gulped. He had no idea what to expect. If Luna turned up the volume for something like this, it had to be good. Luna looked ecstatic about watching this video. Lincoln had never seen her this happy before with the exception of going onstage and performing. This was a new side of her.

Lincoln heard a single instrument being played, starting on what sounded like a fanfare. Slowly, they got louder, and as they did, Lincoln got more and more intrigued and slowly lost the worried look that was on his face before.

"Presenting their 2015 show, 'Inferno!' Drum Corps International is proud to present, Carolina Crown!"

As soon as the announcer said that, the band, and the thousands of people that were in the stadium, went silent for just a second, then, perfectly in sync, they played the loudest, most impressive chord that Lincoln had ever heard. His jaw dropped in amazement. It wasn't just one note that they played together really well. Every single time the drum major conducted a beat, they were perfectly in tune, in sync, and in rhythm. They weren't just perfect in playing though. The shapes on the field were perfectly aligned. Every person was marching exactly in time to the music and the flag twirlers, which Lincoln later found out were called the Color Guard, made zero mistakes in throwing their flags in the air. Finally, right as the last note was played, three or four people grabbed some poles that were lying on the sidelines, and started running to the back of the field, revealing a massive banner that flew over the entire corps, reading, "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here!" It was a spectacle to behold.

Luna stopped the video right after they finished playing. They slipped their headphones off and Luna asked, "What did you think bro?"

Lincoln was at a loss for words. Never in his life did he think that marching band could be this amazing. It was no surprise anymore that Luna loved it so much. "That... Was... Awesome..."

"I thought so..."

"Is that how loud they are in real life?" Lincoln asked.

"No... They're not," Luna told him faking a frown, then slowly coming back to a smile. "They're even louder than that!"

Lincoln instantly went slack-jawed again upon hearing this. The volume on the computer was all the way up as loud as it could be, yet it still wasn't loud enough to truly get how loud any drum corps really could be.

"You're kidding... Right?"

"It's okay lil' bro. I thought the exact same thing when I first discovered it a few years ago. Then I went to one in real life."

"You've been to a drum corps event?"

"Heck yeah bro! It was awesome!"

Lincoln started listening intently to Luna's story of her first journey to go see a drum corps show. "A few years ago, some friends from school were going with their older siblings to go see one and they invited me along. I had no idea what they were talking about, but since I figured they were paying for it, I tagged along. When we got there and they told me it was basically a big marching band show, I was so bummed."

"I thought you said you liked drum corps?"

"I do now. But I didn't back then. I thought it was gonna be a rock concert or something like that."

"Why didn't you want to do it?"

"Cause the only band I had ever seen was the Royal Woods marching band..."

"Ah... that makes sense now..." The Royal Woods marching band wasn't that great. Lincoln had been in the high school band hall and all they had were a bunch of fourth and fifth place trophies.

"Anyway, we had to walk all the way to the top of the stadium to get to our seats. I got bored pretty quick as the first few bands played their songs, but then the better, bigger bands started playing and I got more intrigued. Finally, the band you just saw played their show. It wasn't this same show, but it was a wicked one! By the end of it, I was on the edge of my seat with my mouth wide open, just staring onto the field as they finished the show."

"Wow... That sounds awesome! What other shows did you see in real life?"

"I saw this one that we're watching right now. That was such an awesome show. I still remember the reaction that everyone had when they finished."

"Can we finish watching this one?"

"Sure thing lil' bro!"

They both went silent, putting the headphones back on to finish the video. While it wasn't storytelling in the common sense, it was clear that a story was being told on the football field. It was a story of anger, hate, depression, and sadness. Then, as the video started coming to a close, the corps started playing happier and more upbeat music. Finally, before they played the final notes, another banner, this time completely golden, swooped over the entire band. As the banner revealed the members, Lincoln could start to make out the shape of a crown, and as they played the last chord, a woman draped in white, climbed up a white ladder, clearly resembling a stairway to heaven, and got to the top of it right as the drum major cut them off for the last time.

Looking again at the crown they made on the field, Lincoln lightly elbowed his sister's shoulder and said, "I get it... Cause they're called Carolina Crown..."

"They do that every year, and normally, it's actually kind of annoying, but they did a good job pulling it off for this show."

Lincoln couldn't believe how many things went into this show to make it go off without a hitch. All in less than twelve minutes. If they do something like this every year, then it must take months to plan it. Then, all of the performers have to learn the show before it's time for the first performance.

"Do they do the same show some years?"

"No bro, they do a different show every year."

So now, not only do they plan these shows for months and have the performers learn it, but they do a brand new show every year.

"Wow. I wish we could all agree to go to something like this..."

"Yeah, me too bro..." Then Luna started thinking. She had a look on her face for a moment like she was pondering an idea, then slowly, the more she thought, the more that look turned to one of excitement. "Maybe they will!"