It was quiet today in the Vocaloid household, so quiet that you could hear a pin as it falls to the floor. There was a reason behind of all this, though. Instead of singing, all vocaloids were doing other hobbies. Like Leon and Lola, they would be thinking of new songs they could sing. Meiko would be with Haku, who often visited from the Fanloid community, drinking sake and other alcoholic drinks in a bar nearby the mansion. Kaito would hang out with his brothers, who also came to visit, to meet the newest Shion family members while eating his precious Ice Cream.
Hiyama-Sensei would teach the younger vocaloids and the older ones would just slack off playing videogames or doing everyday work such as coming up with new songs at the producers' houses. The mansion was as quiet as a mouse, that was until someone showed up. A girl with a fluffy hat of black wolf ears and a detachable wolf tail with a big smile plastered on her face and a notebook in her right hand dashed towards the mansion. She was wearing a star-filled night colored T-shirt with the shadow of a wolf howling to the full moon, a black unzipped hoodie, a twinkling dark purplish blue skirt with a silver chain to her left, navy blue stockings with royal purple stripes, and ankle-high black boots with medium sized heels. She ran around the mansion like a little child shouting "ALL OF YOU, MEET ME IN THE GARDEN, WE HAVE A MEETING!" in every room she went leaving shocked faces behind.
"What's your sister's problem?" A blond boy asked a certain brunette while peeling a banana.
"She's probably gonna make one of those speeches of hers" The brunette answered with a shrug as he made his way to the garden where her noisy sister was going to make her 'speech.'
Once everyone was outside, they saw the wolf girl on top of a large rock waiting for all to take a seat and shut up. After they all sat down in the chairs that she had prepared, she stood up and cleared her throat.
"Listen up friends!" She held up her index finger.
"Here we go with the MMD references" The brunette from before rolled his eyes in annoyance.
The wolf girl ignored her brother's action and continued with her speech "I have an important announcement!" everyone groaned in boredom.
"This better be important Kumiko!"
The girl hopped off the rock she was on and pointed an accusing finger in her brother's direction her curly brown hair tied in a high ponytail following close behind. "Shut up Kusahiko, everything I say is important!" the girl gritted her teeth causing the boy to flinch.
Kumiko then straightened her skirt as she continued "As you all know, I'm still not that good at writing" everyone nodded in response. After all, she still hasn't even uploaded a proper story and the one she has in her computer isn't that well written. "So my idea is!" they all waited impatiently "Wait for it~". Silence surged the garden until Kumiko jumped with a victorious pose "I'm gonna make a vocaloid one-shot collection to practice on my writing skills~!"
The vocaloids almost fell from their chairs in horror "WHAT?!" they screamed. The garden's atmosphere then changed, it wasn't calm anymore, instead it was full of rants that could break you to shreds if possible.
"Are you insane?! This is the craziest idea you could have ever came up with!" Meiko, who was back from the bar, pointed a broken sake bottle in Kumiko's direction a scowl glued to her face "Do you have any idea how do we feel about this kind of stuff? All we can do is be used by others in many ways, ways that can change your life forever!"
Kumiko backed off in fear until her back met what felt like two beings slightly shorter than her " 'RinXLen is the best shipping' 'No KaitoXLen is' I can't live with that! I'm an android, true, I cannot make my own decisions, true. But that doesn't mean that I have to be used for whatever you all feel like doing!" Len protested.
Rin pushed Kumiko away, a glare reflected in her blue eyes "Yeah, a one-shot collection? That would be the end of our friendship miss!" the blond girl snapped.
They all kept ranting and protesting. And Kumiko was surrounded by an angry crowd and she didn't know what to do. Suddenly she had an idea. She quickly pulled out her notebook and started writing on it.
'The vocaloids backed off and let Kumiko free so she could finish her announcement.'
Somehow, the raging beasts were soon pacified and backed away leaving Kumiko free. Confused faces filled the garden before they realized what happened. Since Kumiko is the author of this fanfiction she could be able to make them do anything she wanted as long as she had a pencil or pen and paper. After they all calmed down, Kumiko was able to continue her announcement. So she quickly stood on the rock she was previously on, careful not to fall over, and cleared her throat once again. "I know you all hate to be manipulated, I honestly do too."
"Right now I'm not the one controlling my actions, you see? Right now the owner of this website's account is writing in his/her computer what I do and say. What you do and say is written by me. But don't feel bad, your feelings belong to you so you have the right to tell me how you feel. But honestly, I really need to do this, I want to improve my writing and what better way to do this than to write a one-shot collection?" Everyone, sat down feeling slightly guilty, the now cheerful girl then added "You know better than anything that I wouldn't do this to hurt you nor humiliate you."
A boy suddenly came out of the crowd wearing similar clothes to his sister's. He had the same wolf T-shirt, a black unzipped hoodie with matching wolf ears in the hood, a detachable wolf tail, black jean shorts with a silver chain to his right side, black knee-length boots, and the socks hidden under his boots that matched his sister's. He also had the same brown hair tied in a short low ponytail and same honey brown eyes. "Alright, so what exactly are you planning on writing?" he asked crossing his arms.
Kumiko smiled at her brother's interest on what she's writing "I'm not entirely sure how many chapters this is gonna have, so maybe I just might keep writing until I'm satisfied with my writing skills. About the updating rate? Probably every time I need to improve on something, but to keep you entertained I might update once a week, every Sunday maybe, I can't keep any promises though. I'm also open for requests, I accept yuri, yaoi, straight, horror, and everything as long as it's nothing greater than T."
"Woah, woah, woah, wait!" A certain green haired teen interrupted. "You're going to write yuri and yaoi? I thought you didn't like that!" The green head, Gumi, said in confusion while fixing her fallen red goggles.
Kumiko sighed and looked at the girl straight in the eyes, "I don't, but I still want to try, like I told YaoiGlitchloid once, 'What's the point of wanting to be a good writer if you don't challenge yourself to make things that your viewers will like?' Besides, it's not like if I had something against yaoi and yuri 'cause I have a couple of friends who're gay/lesbian, is just that I'm not really into that." She rolled her honey eyes. Then she walked towards Kusahiko and wrapped her arm around his neck, so tight that he couldn't breath. The girl giggled at his reaction "Another thing, there might be a couple of fourth wall breakers such as either of us appearing in the background, but nothing to the point of interacting with the main characters nor changing the plot."
Kusahiko shook off his sister's arm breathing heavily, after he regained his breath he nodded in agreement, "That isn't much of a bad thing, I guess. Just make sure you don't humiliate any of us." He walked away, gesturing Kumiko to follow.
"Well, this is the end of my announcement!" Kumiko jumped clapping her hands in exitement. "And y'all gotta admit, I did way better than the story I wrote before that I then erased the next day." She sticked out her tongue, "And before I end this I want to say that if any of you viewers have a question or request you may write a review that I'll answer on the next one-shot/chapter in an author's note. But if you request something please be specific with what you want, please tell me what genre, rating, characters, etc. Just be as specific as you can."
"Oh, and if you want me to include an OC of yours that's fine." Everyone then made their way out the garden so they can continue what they were doing before. But before leaving, Kumiko and Kusahiko turned around to face you viewers and screamed "We own nothing other than ourselves! If Vocaloid did belong to us we would have made Vocaloid concerts in Puerto Rico!So that's it for today, hope you enjoyed this chapter of Writing Skills Practic: One-Shot Collection and take it easy guys, peace, bye, see ya~!"