Thump
Bass!
Thump
Bass!
Thump
Bass!
'Here we go…' A soft voice of a girl sung.
Blue lights illuminate the room.
'Another night out.'
The lights get brighter.
'Waited all week.. just to get out.'
She could see the bodies of anonymous people moving around her. They're control, like hers, were taken by the beats of the music.
'Where do we come from?'
She moved to the flow, flexing hips, arms and legs.
'Do I know your name?'
The blue lights shifted around the room in spinning cycles. They drifted over the sea of people, giving her a brief glimpse at their appearance.
'Does it really matter?'
No, it didn't.
'In this light, we're all the same.'
Raven lifted her hands to the air, swinging her body in circles.
'Move for meeeeee~!' That soothing voice sung. 'I move for youuuuuu~!'
God, I love this. I could die happy in this moment.
Raven loved to go to these raves every Friday night. It brought her much joy, like a child receiving candy. But it was a feeling that lasted for a very long time. That's probably why she couldn't miss one night, even if she tried. This night was probably one of the best she had ever experienced in a long while. It was easy to see why… tonight was a special guest. A DJ from across the Atlantic Ocean. No one knew if he/she was from the United States or Canada or maybe even Mexico.
But they had talent, who ever they were.
The blue lights faded out. The room was dark. People panted and cheered. Raven clapped with them, eager for the next song. They continued to wait in the dark. Everyone turned to where the DJ's box was stationed.
"C'mon, show your face!" One guy way back behind Raven shouted.
In response, a low bass was heard. It grew louder.
People began to cheer, unable to hold in their excitement.
Raven felt a hand grab her arm and hot breath came to her ear. "Raven? Is something wrong with the lights?"
Alesia had tagged along. This was her second time coming to the rave with Raven. She wasn't much of a night owl or a party person, but she would agree to go out and do wild things so long as Raven was with her, and it was an excuse to escape a boring three hours of bible study.
"Nah, its probably just for an effect. The DJ's playing on anticipation, for sure."
"Ok." Alesia whispered nervously.
A loud voice was heard in a mega phone over the loud bass.
"Hi friends." A young male.
People screamed back.
"Thank you England for having me here. I might stay awhile, do you guys mind?"
Louder screams returned a response.
"Awesome!" Raven shouted. Alesia continued to grip her friend's arm.
As the bass's pitch rose higher and higher, the melody became more clear and electronic. A low, bluish white light slowly faded in around the DJ's box. The outline of the man come into view?
"Wot the fuck is he wearing?" The guy just in front of the two girls said loudly to a girl next to him.
"Wot, indeed." Raven said to Alesia. They both stared.
The out line of a perfect circle with two huge disks onto and on either side sat on the DJ's shoulders.
"Who wears a hat like that to a rave?" Raven asked.
"Oh GOD!" Alesia gasped. "It's moving."
Raven squinted. The two disks on the top part of his head were twitching in different directions. They moved in response to the sounds around him.
"Whoa, its like he has huge ears on his head." Raven laughed.
"Are you supposed to be a mouse?" A girl way up in the front near the DJ yelled.
The DJ, turned his head, the ear like disks changing angles. "Yes. I am." He sounded really jolly. "Now, here is one of my favorites. Made this mix just for you."
The crowd cheered as the music let out a BANG!
Beats and thumps and synchronized sounds whipped about the room, and instantly, everyone became hypnotized again. The room was jumping to life and the lights above began to spin out of control, flashing bright colors of pink, orange, green, and blue.
Raven began moving again with the beats.
"Move, my friends! Feel my beats!" The DJ's arms lifted in the air, pulsing his aura to the crowd of techno drunk fools.
Everyone cheered and flailed, jumping and stamping the group with excitement.
What animals. Raven thought. She began to jump through the crowd looking for a space where it wasn't so crowded. This was too good of music to just jump around to; she needed to dance.
'DJ' That girls voice echoed in the speakers again.
'A light show.'
Off to the side of the DJ's box, Raven found the crowd less out of control and more broken up. She was still very close to the speakers; she could still feel the beat in her throat. Down her hands went on the floor and her legs swung up in the air.
Spinning.
'Speakers putting out'
Raven jerked her body in the flow of the rhythm, her whole center core flexing as she moved.
'Its where we're going'
Eyes closed, no need to see the real world now. The music was her guide.
'This way and that way.'
Breathing faster, heart beating harder.
'Getting passed the name.'
"Are you feeling me?" The DJ shouted in the mic. Screams.
'Doesn't really matter. In this light, we're all the same.'
"MOVE FOR ME!" He shouted.
'Move for meeeeeee~! I move for youuuu~!'
Raven gasped as the sounds beats came to an end. She stood back up, and wobbled. The pain was worth it. She never felt more alive.
She clapped with the rest of the people on the dance floor.
"Hey, nice moves." A girl yelled to her, patting her on the back.
She nodded and smiled.
The DJ spoke out. "You all know how to party!"
More screams, along with a guy in the audience yelling 'FUCK YEAH!'
Raven felt a hand on her arm again. She turned.
"Raven, I think I'm going to head home now. It's getting awfully late." Alesia said.
"Wot? It's not even midnight yet." Raven frowned.
"I know, but if I don't get home soon, my parents are going to nag me. Enjoy the rest of the night."
"Well... Okay. Go out the back way, its safer, more lit up."
Alesia slipped out of sight between the bodies of sweating ravers.
Raven turned her attention up to the DJ box and became shocked.
The light now beamed down on the DJ, revealing his full face. The hat, was no hat. It was more like a full faced helmet. But it looked like it was his actual face. The large circular eyes that were placed on the red mouse head, blinked at the crowd. A large bright grin stretched from each side of his face, as he turned to get a whole look at the confused people before him.
"Dude, how do you do that?" The guy who yelled 'fuck yeah' asked loudly.
The mouse DJ just tipped back his head, the circular eyes closing shut and laughed. The mouth moved with his laughter. It looked very real. Freaky… Raven thought.
"Whaddya mean?" The DJ chuckled idiotically.
"You're face!" A girl shouted. "How are you making that mask move?"
The mouse laughed again, shaking his head back and forth with amusement. The guy wasn't going to tell. It was probably his signature to have that mouse helmet.
"You guys kill me. I don't know what you mean." He shouted back, grinning fiendishly.
"Are you going to play another song?" Some one in the back shouted impatiently.
"I apologize. My turn is over for tonight. The next DJ, Scooter, will be up next." Some people booed. Raven frowned.
She loved Scooter. He was a local DJ that had some good beats and rhythms. But he played at this location too much, and people were starting to get tired of him. It was rare to get a guy like this from across the globe to come and play.
"Thank you England for having meeee~!" The DJ sang into his mic, and sea of voices raw'd.
Raven cheered too and watched as the light above the mouse fade off and he vanished. He certainly has a creepy character to him. Still… she wondered how he got his mask to look so life like. As she watched his ears twitch back and forth and the lids of the eyes blink, she couldn't help but think it had to be real.
Being a mechanic, it was going to bug her all night unless she could figure out how it worked. Raven thought a moment.
I could just sit here and ponder on this like a tard… or... I could innocently walk to the direction of the bathrooms. But dare I not ignore the obvious sign in the hallway that points to the right for the bathrooms, and not go left, toward one of the doors labeled back stage, and not use my special door pick I designed to get in to find this guy to check out his helmet design.
Raven smiled at her devious plan. Let's do it.