Sing Book 2
Tales of Fame, Friendship and Family.
1st Arc: The Value of Passion and Friendship.
Chapter 1: Music is for everyone.
New Moon Theater, on the stage, Rosita´s Pov:
What is music..., where does it begins and where does it ends?
What is songwriting..., when are words forming a true song with a message and when do they become nothing but empty phrases for entertainment?
A Melody..., what is it supposed to be..., what is true, what is wrong..., when is it to be used and when not?
Is it all about blasting beats and insane riffs..., or will soft and classic sounds prevail?
Is modern music better than Classic music of the 16th century or even earlier?
Can Powerful opera-chants ever prevail over funky Gospel-choirs?
Defining Music..., how could anyone ever do such a thing?
Music is what you want to hear, there is no right nor wrong, there is no good nor bad style.
We are barely 1,5 billiards peoples on this world, most likely even more, and all of us has a different like in music, we might say that there are several fandoms for one genre of music, but it happens rarely that they all listen to the very same music, getting the very same messages from the songs like others do.
On the question of what music is, where it starts and where it ends, and what for songwritings can be called a true song and which aren't..., to be honest I cannot truly answer that question as well.
In my opinion a song is both, something which either tries to explain a real-life situation in all its aspects, good and bad.
Or something which can take your mind into the realm of undiscovered legends, fantastic stories and adventurous fairytales.
Anything which makes you dream with your eyes wide open.
We cannot truly answer your question with words, so all we can show you, is how we answer these questions for ourselves, by doing the best we can.
We sing.
(Original: Come Alive by Hugh Jackman & Keala Settle)
Buster:
"You stumble through your days
With your heads hung low
Your skies' a shade of grey
Like you´re trapped in a maze
You're asleep inside
But we can shake you awake!
'Cause you're must just stop to walking
Thinking that's your only option
See, you can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day
Sun is up and the stage is waiting
Take your world and redefine it
Leave behind your narrow mind
And you'll never be the same!"
Lucy:
„Come alive, come alive
Go and light your light
Let it burn so bright
Reaching high
To the sky
And it's open wide
You're electrified!"
Buster (The Crew) :
"When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
('Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open)
And you know you can't go back again
To the world that you have left behind
('Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
So, come alive!)"
Buster:
"I once saw it in your eyes
You had believed that lie
That you needed to hide your face
Afraid to step outside
So you left the chance behind
But you did not stay that way!"
Rosita:
"No more living in those shadows
You and me, we know how that goes!"
Gunther:
'"Cause once you see it, oh you'll never, never be the same!"
Rosita and Gunther:
"We will be the light that's blinding
Insecure but we keep on shining!"
[All]
"You can prove there's more to you!"
Buster:
"You cannot be afraid!"
All:
"Come alive, come alive
Go and light your light
Let it burn so bright
Reaching high
To the sky
And it's open wide
You're electrified
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And we know you can't go back again
To the world that you have left behind
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
So, come alive!
Come one!
Come all!
Come in!
Come on!"
Ash:
"To anyone who's bursting with a dream!"
All:
"Come one!
Come all!
You hear
The call!"
Buster:
"To anyone who's searching for a way to break free!"
All:
"Break free!
Break free!
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And we know you can't go back again
To the world that you have left behind
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
(Hey!)
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And we know you can't be go back again
To the world that you have left behind
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
'Cause we're dreaming with our eyes wide open
So come alive! (Come alive!)" And with this shout, the second big Show began, here at the Calatonia New Moon Theater, one of three major shows for the rest of the Year.
Once again it has been a long way to where we are now, and much has happen.
Some may say it were only 4 months barely, but we know it was far more than that, it was a long time with many hardships, valuable experiences, good as bad times, starting from the preparation for the Charity Concert, over our beach time and the MTV Challenge, getting past Ash´s Kidnapping and her later public engagement with Johnny after we managed to safe her and Johnny´s false accusation and imprisonment, as well as the different love crisis we had to overcome, then there was the Ballroom dance for the grand opening of a new expensive Hotel for the superrich, which Mrs. Noodleman kind of forced on us to participate in..., not to mention the reaction our male friends and husbands towards meeting their once favorite Ex-S&M-Pornstar.
Who would have though that Norman had such fetishes.
All in all there were often times when I thought that one of us would be a goner, but in the end all those situations have miraculously solved themselves one way or another, all what was left was to bring this show on the road, show Calatonia a good time and make it forget to ever had a need to doubt us.
We are here and we will stay here, after all, Buster Moon still has a lot of ideas in mind for us, and we will most definitely not fail to be amazed by them.
Still, when I think back at how this whole mess has begun, I still cannot believe it, it all began with our ride towards the Theater, with 180 children accompanying us.
4 months before, Calatonia School campus:
As we entered the empty Music room of the Calatonia Elementary school, I was the least prepared for what I would encounter right off the bat.
"Good Morning Mr. Bovino, how a-a-a..., what the hell are you doing you idiot?!" None other but Jessica Colbart asked in complete disbelieve as we surprised none other than Felipe Bovino, a muscular rust red Bull, who was just in the middle off training, half naked with some weights in each palm.
"Oh Hello there Miss Colbart..., sorry I will dress instantly..., to my defense I didn´t thought that any one would enter until the second class!" The young Bull explained as he quickly grabbed after his T-shirt but couldn´t find it where he intended to search.
I saw how Meena had her eyes covered..., Ash simply looked away blushing..., I have to admit that this youthful muscular body did rose some arousement within me, but not enough that I would have been tempted by anything.
However, Miss Colbart on the other hand, had no shame showing what she thought of this, she quickly strutted over to the teacher, pushing the T-shirt, which she gathered from his seat behind his desk, into his arms and pulled him behind the curtain, only to come out a few minutes later, blushing and flustered with a dressed bull on her toes, who just had the most nonchalant smile on his face.
"Anyways, who are these people?" Felipe asked.
"This is Mrs. Ford and her friends, they said to help us bring the Charity concert on the road, since Mrs. Hepburn vanished into her vacation." Miss Colbart explained.
"Yeah I heard of that, that stupid woman just went rogue on us at the most crucial of times, our budget and experience is low anyways so how are they thinking of us managing all that.
180 students to evaluate and only 60 to sing in the Concert, means we have to tell 120 Students that they couldn´t make it and failed..., I honestly have no idea why I ever asked to come to this school as a teacher, it´s plain to see that its more about the school status and prestige, than the actual students!" Felipe Bovino stated, speaking what everyone of us thought, in the simplest words.
"I know, but we got a solution for it, basically it hasn´t been said that we must let these 120 students fail, and since we have no budget for a professional orchestra, we thought of letting those 120 students act as our orchestra, all we have to do is to train them in playing the instruments!" Miss Colbart stated.
"I see where your thoughts are heading, but even you, Miss Colbart, must admit that it is impossible to teach so many students to play like a professional orchestra in barely a week!" Mr. Bovino wanted to object and we nodded.
"We are well aware of that fact..., and since we cannot do that, we just have to let them look like an Orchestra, if this is all but a sham anyways, why not make it bigger than before to fit everyone in?" Miss Colbart asked and Mr. Bovino though about it.
"So..., if I got this correctly, you mean we do a playback concert, the only genuine part in it will be the singers?" Mr. Bovino asked and we nodded holding our breath.
"Well it usually isn´t my style to do something like that...!" He stated and the disappointment was big.
"...But since I hate it more to see so many disappointed faces before me, I think we got no other choice, so we might as well go with that idea, its do or die I guess!" Mr. Bovino explained and we all nodded.
"But how do we get to make the students go along with that scheme?!" I asked.
"Easy, none of them want to fail, so we tell them that they wont if they go along and in the end the School loves their reputation, if we would threaten them with exposing to the public that the entire Concert was a scam from head to toe, if it succeeds, I bet they will try anything legal to keep that from happening, so they have to let the students succeed.
It is the school's responsibility if their teachers are not motivated enough to properly teach the students all year long.
They await from us to bring them a miracle in less than a week, so they will get their miracle..., but it won´t make them happy!" Miss Colbart explained, with a dangerous fire in her eyes as if she just declared war on the Principals, maybe she has done that mentally.
"Music is a gift which can make thousands of people happy and forgetting the hardships of life for a few hours..., and that we have to use it for a scam like this really makes my skin crawl..., but if it is the only way to put a smile on the faces of 180 children I am willing to use it by every means necessary." She stated and we all nodded.
"But still these 120 children must get some guidance, otherwise it will all come to light as soon as they are supposed to perform, even a newbie would notice if someone can play, or act as if they can play in this case, or if they suck at even just pretending to play.
Still even with those few students in my Orchestra club are we too less to show them all the basic ropes of it and even if, we have far too less instruments for a full orchestra, we got maybe only 30 instruments at all, where do we get the other 30.
The plan overall is good but we have to find a solution to fill these holes in it." Felipe asked.
"Well I know from some of my Classmates that their Parents are part of the Town´s Orchestra, maybe they can help us teach them and lend us some of their spare instruments on top of that." Meena replied.
"Nice thinking, miss Kumara..., if they then also would volunteer to play as the actual orchestra within the shadows, we got a start!" Miss Colbart explained and I could already imagine how this would look like.
"We will need a bigger stage, taller and massively build, so that a whole orchestra of 60 people can sit upon it, with 60 singers in the choir and the instruments and other equipment, without it collapsing.
It must be strong enough to not pose a threat to the Orchestra which will be located right underneath them, their tones being submitted and amplified over Microphones and flat speaker boxes to the stage above, making it look as if the Students indeed would create the melody themselves." I mumbled as architectural plans unfolded in my mind.
"Maybe that could work but where do we get the budget for something, I mean we will have to pay the Orchestra, the material for the stage and all the special equipment as well as the construction costs, the School Direction will never ever allow this?" Felipe asked unsure.
"They will if they want to save their own reputation, they have advertised the Concert for 2 Months by now, if they now cancel it , it will definitely slay on the good name of these schools, especially if it becomes public that it was only due to the budget also if many students help us we will not need any construction workers to help us, we just build things ourselves." I replied and my Crewmembers nodded with determination.
"It wouldn´t be the first stage we constructed!" Ash stated nodding.
"Indeed, just as Ash said, if its under the direction of Rosita we can build anything!" Johnny replied and I smiled at them.
"Alright, Budget and Stage construction will be no problem, still that leaves us with the Material, the payment of the Orchestra and the Special sound-technical Equipment, where do we get them from?" Miss Colbart asked.
"I´ve asked Heather and her father agreed to lend us the Equipment if we advertise for his Shop as sponsor!" Ash replied and I was buff, once again I had to see how mature Ashley was, and how good our Crew works together..., if we do it in the family, we can do anything.
"The Material will be also no problem, I still got some connections from my previous Architect job and I have a lot of back-up from the Parents association anyways, if I ask for them they will surely help us as well, we got a lot of DIY-Housewives which will give us a hand, let me just text them really quick!" I replied as I took out my mobile phone and began to speak to my fellow Mothers about the happenings.
That they were enraged over the injustice of the School-Direction was self-evident, and they were more than just a little ready to help us.
"So with these two out of the way we still need to pay the Orchestra, and that will be tricky, if we do not be careful we will have no budget left for anything additional which might come up and in the end they have to be willing to go along with the scam anyways.
I can imagine that it would hurt their pride to let something like this happening, after all they all worked hard to be where they are now, while we basically try to force them to do the hard work for someone else's sake, so that they have it easy.
Any proud conductor would break his baton in rage, if asked such a sacrilegious thing!" Mr. Bovino explained.
"Indeed, and I honestly do not like the idea of asking the Children of orchestra-musicians to pester their parents into participating.
If anything I would like to hold it on an voluntary base anyways, after all this concert is meant to be for Charity, if we have to spent a large amount to pay the depts we make, by getting a full-fledged and willing Orchestra and all the other stuff, then the intent of it would be quite meaningless." Miss Colbart explained and all we could do was nodding.
"Just how shall we do this?" I asked myself.
"Aren´t we forgetting something important here, even if we manage to pull off the scam with the Orchestra, how are we supposed to motivate 60 students into singing 16 boring songs?
As much as I can see are most of them not even from the 21st Century.
It´s evident that Mrs. Hepburn managed to destroy any enthusiasm, which the students ever had, Meena is perhaps the only one who is willing to sing freely, all the others are afraid to mess up or just have no clue what to do!" Manuel asked.
"That´s a good Question, as I said, most of the student don´t have the same taste in music or even an interest in other things than what they like.
And since all 16 songs are classic ones, only a small percentage of the 180 students have even the drive to sing them." Meena explained.
"How about we just change the entire Tracklist, I mean no one , especially not the people listening want to be bored to death by classic-songs, it´s just not everyone´s cup of tea!" I stated.
"Wait what, but what about the Principals, they will not allow us to do just anything for the big Concert?" Miss Colbart explained.
"Well, all we have to do is to sing songs with the same message, just modern ones, and it might be good to put in different genres instead of a single one!" Rosita replied.
"That..., might actually work!" Nathan stated after thinking.
"Yeah...,, it´s worth a try, this way they all learn to appreciate music in general!" Mr. Bovino agreed.
"Then let´s go with this, maybe we find an Orchestra who is willing to try something new." Gunther explained and we nodded.
"So what's the universal Message from the original songs, what is the red cord which leads to them all?" he asked.
"Compassion for others, to see the world through the eyes of others and not only through your own, to banish self-centered mindsets and bring all of Beastkind together, but to always be aware that we are just animals and not gods, we do what we can to live our life and if required, to help others with all of our abilities!" Miss Colbart answered.
"Oh I see, there I got a couple of good songs in mind which we can play!" Gunther replied and I nodded, I bet we were on the same page here.
"Anyways, I think it is time to go and meet the Children in the Gym-hall, if anything we will have to ask them about their opinion as well, it´s not like we can decide everything over their heads, if we do we aren´t any better than Mrs. Hepburn and the Principals." Mr. Bovino stated and Miss Colbart nodded eagerly.
And so we made our way towards the Gym-hall, right upon the battlefield into our Camp, so to say.
Nancy´s Pov:
Buster Moon and Michael Conway.
It really seemed as if time stood still as these two men met here in the Tropical Beach Bar.
While Larry looked quite confused, I was expecting that Mike might make some kind of nasty comment before turning right around and leaving, but as after five minutes still not a word came out of either of both, I knew that someone had to break the ice.
"You guy´s know each other?" Larry, who also didn´t liked the sudden tense silence asked.
"Indeed!" they both answered in unison again.
"On good or on bad terms?" Larry asked further.
"Not quite sure!" again it was as if they both had some telepathic connection, which made them reply the very same thing at the same time.
"I was worried you know..., you could have called at least, after vanishing without a trace." Buster stated after he sighed long and heavy, most likely biting back some nasty comments he wanted to say.
"I know..., I´m sorry, but I got some dangerous stuff coming up and I had to get out of town together with Nancy or else these things might have caught up on us!" mike replied unsure.
"Dangerous situation..., as so often..., did your greed fell in the presence of Karma and has sold you out or what?" Buster moon asked with narrowed eyes.
"You could say that." Mike´s voice grew uncertain as his confidence from before began to shrink.
"Has it at least made you think about yourself and your way of life..., was it so effective that you might have the wish to change yourself?" Buster Moon literrally riddled Mike with his glance.
"Definitely..., if not for myself ten at least for Nancy´s sake..., I was the one who pulled her into all this, so I have to make sure that she can get through it unscathed, but for that I need money..., proper and clean money, money I have owned myself by working hard.
I love Nancy so I want her to be safe at my side and to build such a safe life up, I will have to gain money in a legal way..., that's why I Sing and perform." Mike replied and I had to blush a little.
"Last Question..., any thoughts about playing cards and rolling dices with the devil?" Buster Moon asked and his mine went even ore sour than before and I knew right along that it was a hint on Mikes previous side-occupation as con-man and Gambler and the trouble he got with Igor and his Gang.
Trouble he had brought along to the Moon theater.
"I don´t plan on rolling any Dices for the next few years and will gain our souls back from the devil..., somehow!" Mike replied, having understood the hint.
"I will need prove of that, otherwise I cannot allow you to work here!" Buster stated and suddenly it was as if Larry woke up from a trance.
"Now wait a second Buster, I am still the owner of the Bar and I think it is up to me to decide whether to take someone in or not, do not forget this!" Larry exclaimed a little furious.
"I´m sorry Larry, but trust me on this one, I had my fair share of worse experienced due to this man, ultimately his problems, which he had brought over to the Theater, caused the same to collapse 6 months ago!" Buster explained and the commotion had aroused a lot of attention as the entire team of the Beach Bar, minus the one who left earlier, came to take a look at the commotion.
"Wait..., really?" Larry asked unsure.
"You take a massive Glass-tank full of water, which was intended as stage for a show, you get a certain guy, bringing in a Gang of other big guys with Baseball bats and who knows what else and watch as they smash said bat right into the stage connected to the high Tank behind it, what do you think is the equation of that Calculation?" Buster Moon asked with the bitterest tone I ever heard.
"Chaos and destruction?" A female Persian Cat asked.
"Indeed, Chaos, life endangering situations such as the near drowning and suffocating of some of my Crew members..., and destruction., I had to witness my dream and my fathers reason to live collapse right infront of my eyes.
Maybe it was bound to happen anyways..., but that circumstance which you brought, mike, definitely accelerated the whole process.
And afterwards you came back, asking for forgiveness..., and believe me, I was so close to really forgive you for it, after all your performance was so amazing that even miss Noodleman wanted to later on congratulate you..., but you vanished on us, again, you just came and go like you wanted..., but instead of staying away a few days like the previous time, you left us for 6 entire months, no news from you, not even a simple message..., and now I suddenly meet you here.
As I said, a call would have been nice.
No Mike..., I will really need a lot of strong reasons why I should trust you this time!" Buster Moon explained and I was buff, from his exterior look you would never believe that he was one to hold massive grudges.
"It´s as I always said..., if Buster says he hates you..., he hates you for real." I heard someone whispering.
"What can I do to make me trustful to you?" Mike asked.
"I don´t know..., I don´t even know if you might not just vanish on us all in the next few days again, as so often." Moon replied and I guess that this might be what Mike did deserve.
If his problems would have only hurt him I would not say this, but as a matter of fact it didn´t do that, no it also hurted all of those around him.
"Well I don´t know anything expect of performing so maybe if I show you that I mean it for real, in the one way we know best..., maybe you can at least start to trust me again?" Mike asked.
"..., by all means go and try your luck..., it´s as Larry say, he is the owner in the end I cannot tell you to get out if he wishes you to stay, but at least it is my decision to decide whether I will trust you or not." Moon answered before he turned away and sat himself on a chair after pulling one for the woman on his side, another Koala, most likely his Girl.
"I guess I ill get no rest then, let´s just do this quick then get us a Room, okay?" Mike said as he put his bag next to me for me to keep watch over it.
"Show him that you have changed." I whispered in his ears before kissing his cheek making him blush.
With reddened cheeks he walked dover towards the Bar and jumped up on it before facing us.
"Well then, here I go!" he stated before he looked at me with that certain glance of determination.
(Original: No Dice (Cuphead song) by NerdOut (AJR`s No Grass today Cover))
"Mike:
I didn't play no card today
I already sold our souls away
We can't escape this game we play
With the devil, as his prey
I didn't play no card today
And now we fleeing everyday
Will we survive this game we play
With the devil, as his prey?
Racing for our freedom
With my Girl against my demons
Not monsters just normal people
But they´re still scaring me
I thought that I was clever
When I dealt cards with the devil
But now we're stuck forever
And it's all cause of me
Don't wanna keep being a churl
Just wanna protect my girl
We're just a couple of mice
So please just treat us nice
I didn't play no card today
I already sold our souls away
We can't escape this game we play
With the devil, as his prey
I didn't play no card today
And now we fleeing everyday
Will we survive this game we play
With the devil, as his prey?
We play in Clubs and Discos
From Angeles up to Frisco
I try with all my power
But I can't do a thing
There is no time for sulking
Even if none of this is working
I will just keep on working
If it saves Nancy and Me
Don't wanna keep being a churl
Just wanna protect my girl
We're just a couple of mice
So please just treat us nice
I didn't play no card today
I already sold our souls away
We can't escape this game we play
With the devil, as his prey
I didn't play no card today
And now we fleeing everyday
Will we survive this game we play
With the devil, as his prey?
Since I wasn´t so needy
I should´ve not been so greedy
And I know you can´t trust me
So I sing to you for proof
Don't wanna keep do this
It's all cause of my choosing
Now I smile with the music
Cause I will get us through
I didn't play no card today
I already sold our souls away
We can't escape this game we play
With the devil, as his prey
I didn't play no card today
And now we fleeing everyday
Will we survive this game we play
With the devil, as his prey?!" Mike sang and it was perhaps one of the most honest songs he had ever sung, he created it on our travels.
After hearing a certain song on the radio he began to hum along and before long or short he had begun to sing his own version of it, it matched us so well that I decided to note it down, for him to someday sing it in a show, I guess today it was finally ready to make its debut.
Mike´s own Cover song, No Card Today.
And it did had it´s effect as many of the here present people, myself included applauded, even Buster Moon had to admit that it was a good song although all he did was silently nodding, same as the woman next to him, the female Koala from before, the same just stared angrily at Mike, as if he personally offended her.
Seriously, what´s her problem?
"As expected you still have talent..., well if you are willing to take him in it is your choice and responsibility Larry, but I warned you, if anything goes wrong don´t come crying okay!" Buster Moon simply stated after a little while of thinking before he went back to whatever work he had to do.
"Well I guess that settles it then, you guys are definitely on board, anyways come along I will show you your rooms!" Larry stated as he led us upstairs.
As we were a little away from the commotion downstairs, Larry suddenly stopped on the stairs.
"Mr. Conway..., Miss Tanner, one thing I need to Confirm..., what Buster said..., about your involvement in the collapse of the old Theater..., how much of it was true?" He asked with a heavy sigh and narrowed eyes.
His face spoke of a man who needed to make quite the decision and who fought desperately with his second thoughts.
It was just fair to tell him the truth so I nudged Mike in the side to make him speak.
"To be honest I can say that most of it was true, indeed it were the same guys I owed money which caught me and asked me for it, not nicely of course.
As only way out of this situation and with full skin, I promised them to give them the money which was intended as the price for the competition, of course Buster wasn´t amused, not one bit, as Igor, the Leader of the Russian bear Gang demanded the money, as Buster tried to explain and reason him, Igor simply pushed him aside and smashed the crate in which the money was supposed to be, only for the stage underneath to crack.
While we were debating about the fact that Buster had lied to us about the money all along, we did notice too late that the entire Tank cracked and was about to burst open.
The massive forc eof the Tank then flushed us all aroudn the building and in the end outside on the street, as I came back to my senses I had already been washed down the sewers, as I hid from the Bear-gang, I suddenly hear a massive noise and felt an even more massive vibration shaking the ground, as I looked out of the sewer once the bears had bolted I saw the theater in bits.
In that moment fear overtook me, I just managed to get away from the bears, but I was sure that Buster would not forgive me that..., that none of the Crewmembers would forgive it to me, so I just kept myself hidden, until the night came, then I crawled back out and made my way back home, showering and trying to forget it all..., but regret took a hold off me..., as I heard about the show still being made I thought that maybe I could apologize and if I win the prize, I might could pay the Bears and prevent such a thing from ever happening again.
As I heard that there was no price to win anymore, I thought that it was better to blew this plan, Igor and his Gang had no idea where I was to that time and it might be better for it to stay that way.
But regret does not erase itself so easily, and after being humiliated by some spectators who thought of me as a nobody without talent, I realized that in the end I really was a nobody..., and a loser on top.
While the others sang and performed because of their inner dream, I always just did it for the money.
So I, more in rage of myself, made my way back to the theater to at least once in a while do the right thing.
I sang as best as I could do to make sure that even if Igor would find me, the people would at least remember me, remember my talent, recognizing it for once.
Well as expected Igor found me and was about to kill me, as Nancy showed up and saved me from this predicament, ever since we are on the run together.
That's all there is to know about this, in the end I almost always ran away from responsibility..., but not this time, I dragged Nancy into this so I will make sure to find a way to get her back out of it, its because I love her and because I wish her to be safe!" Mike explained and I had to blush.
"Ever thought about just leaving her and get Igor and his Gang of her tracks this way?" Larry asked and Mike nodded.
"Often enough, but whenever I speak of it Nancy gets really angry, so I have already blown this plan!" Mike replied and I nodded eagerly with a serious mine.
"I see..., I have now an overall view about what to expect... you guys may stay and perform..., but one thing is for sure, Me and my Crew we have kept this bar as clean from trouble as we could and now that it has been cleansed and been renewed completely, I will make sure that it stay like this.
So should your presence pose a threat to all of us, I will not hesitate to show you guys the door, got it..., you may hate me for that but this is me being dead serious, my crew goes before anything else." Larry explained and we gulped down some massive knots as we nodded.
"Alright then, anyways, welcome to the Tropical Beach Bar, may your days with us go by without any complications." Larry stated as he opened a door for us showing us a simple room with still covered furniture.
"I advise you to keep the clothes and special belongings away from the Walls for the rest of the day and you better open up the window for the fresh color to dry.
Food and Drinks are going on the house, but daily supplies are to be bought by yourself, otherwise the room is for free as long as you work hard.
Your show will contain 8 hours, 2 performances of 4 hours each, in the Afternoon from 12:00pm to 16:00pm and in the Evening from 20:00pm to 0:00am.
The Bar is open from 9:00am to 17:00pm and from 19:00pm to 3:00am so you have in total 7 hours to prepare your performance.
I advise you to keep it interesting and unique every time, making the songs a routine might become boring with the time passing, since we get a lot of workers coming at the end of the week, we might even be able to make your performances even better since most of them are professional musicians themselves, so they might help you and create unique performances.
In any way it is nice to get to know you, I will need to get back to work, relax a little and ake sure you are back in action, as I said before, in six hours Mrs. Noodleman will come for a visit, so you better think of a couple of songs to play.
In any way I hope you will have a good stay, see you later!" Larry explained, before he went back downstairs and as I saw Mike´s face falling, I knew that he thought about the same.
If Buster Moon is here, his crew will be not far away either.
"The whole band back together huh, well let´s see what will come out of that?" Mike mumbled with a crooked smile.
All I could do was to hold his hand and wish us both luck.
Luck that we succeed in gaining the trust of all of these people.
Luck that Igor and his men might not instantly find us.
And Luck so that we will survive for another month.
Luck was sure a thing we needed right now..., I just hope we haven´t used it up by now.
To be continued...
A/N: and with this Chapter we have not only our Prologue for the second book but also a little teaser..., I really would like to hear your opinions of the themes coming up in the further story, so PM and Review to your heart´s content.
One thing is for sure, the lineup of artists, which going to be used in this Book is massive, in the last one we had almost 200 songs, in this one will most likely come even more songs.
By now my list contains over 520 songs of all genres, which includes the songs from Book 1 and 2 and the upcoming Shows from Book 3 as well as the three Albums of Lance and Becky.
The lineup of new Characters will become amazing as well.
Here a little spoiler: one of the Original Character will introduce his little sassy, sarcastic and slightly pessimistic sister in this book, can you guess who?
The New Book will be really started most likely Next Year, since I still got to finish with Solatoromansu Book 1 as well as defrag the Chapters of my Naruto story as well as correct and rewrite a lot of the story itself.
And although I got much ideas for future Projects, will I not start with a new story for the rest of the year, I will continue and rewrite my existing stories for now, I hope you understand.
If you got any song suggestions which haven´t come up yet in the overall story, please feel free to notify me, it can be anything as long as one can either sing or dance to it.
In anyways I hope you folks also read the rest of my story, if you do you have my gratitude, and even if you read just my Sing stories you have it as well.
Sincerely, yours truly, The storyteller and his books.
