Random Announcer: Alright everyone, here's the moment you've been waiting for…
Random Hostess: Drumroll please….
(Tristan obliges)
Author: Yes here it is… THE FREAKING DISCLAIMER!!!!
(everyone sweatdrops and falls back)
Joey: Ya said this was important!
Author: well it kinda is, considering if I don't, I'll the feds on my ass faster than Joey can say scrumdidaliumsious.
Joey: (glares)
Author: Don't be that way, you know I give tough love. Anyway, I don't own the Yugioh names but I do own the characters created from them and the songs I use I will list at the bottom, which also aren't mine.
Author: ENJOY THE SHOW!!!
Prologue
Yuugi stood behind the curtains, wondering how he was going to make it through the next 15 minutes. The blackness of the shadows resonating from the spotlights didn't help his own clouded mind to be still.
Grandpa, This is for you.
He drew one last deep breath, made an effort to pause his shaking heart and hands, before leaving the harsh darkness and walking out on stage to hear a brilliant roar echo the walls of the open stadium, beneath the starry summer night.
Chapter One: Two Months Ago
Yuugi sat in front of the TV, hardly able to watch the band through his reddened, swollen eyes. But he somehow was able to listen, listen to every single note played and every pitch hit by the voice of the singer, whose name no one knew. On screen was the band Pharaoh's Resurrection, his favorite and most likely the favorite band of millions in America, and even in Europe and Japan.
The leader singer was his inspiration in life at the moment. He was head of the band and about Yuugi's age, 17, and he wrote most of the songs that the band preformed. Yuugi was apart of an aspiring band, which his friends and he had named Diablo's Rath. In it was Yuugi, lead singer of course, Joey, lead guitar, Tristan, an amazing drummer, Tea, who was backup singer but also the DJ who mixed the techno in the background, and the there was Seto, the band manager and electric keyboard player when needed.
Yuugi looked over to the right edge of the coffee table, giving his songbook a glance before turning back to the TV. He knew it would be a while before he could write again.
And the music played on. Murmuring the lyrics under his breath, Yuugi sang along with the song called "Forsaken".
I'm over it
You see I cannot be together
Erase it
Sleeping so long
Taking off the mask
Clouded memories of the past
At last I see
My fear is fading
I can't speak it
Or else you will take my place
My fear is winding
Always binding
Take my hand now be alive…
Yuugi stopped following along after he heard his friends approaching the door, and he switched off the TV. Knowing the door was unlocked, his friends from the band all burst in, all with gigantic smiles on their faces.
"Hey guys, what are you all so happy about?" Yuugi asked with a half-hearted smile.
"Yuugi you will not believe the amazing thing Seto, who happens to be the best manager in the world, did for us." Tea excitedly replied.
"There has got to be a limit to how cool someone can be who is our friend, but I guess Seto just proves that there isn't," Tristan was practically blasting off to the moon.
Yuugi quirked an eyebrow, "Ok, so what is this super amazing news that I just so happen to have no CLUE about, by the way,"
Seto smiled, a cool and chilling thing to see at the moment. "The RMAX studio is holding a private competition to see who is going to be the introduction to one of their band's concerts."
Yuugi went pale as a ghost, "…you don't mean…" he looked at Joey to find the answer he was hoping was true, but not at the same time.
What Yuugi did next shocked the whole room into silence and stillness. He smiled, and jumped at least ten feet into the air, hugging everyone individually in a crushing hold. The reason: The only band that was going on tour for that season was RMAX's most popular band, Pharaoh's Resurrection.
"When do we audition?" Yuugi asked breathlessly.
"In five days," Joey smiled, overjoyed that for the first time in two weeks, Yuugi had actually been genuinely happy.
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Author: All right everyone, I will update as soon as you give me 5 REVIEWS.
Yuugi: Isn't that asking for bribes or something?
Author: well, sort of… but I need to know that people will actually READ the story.
Yami: hells yes! But wait…
Author: Yeah?
Yami: where am I? Isn't this a Yuugi/ATEM story?
Author: wow that was subtle. Yes, you WILL be in the story… once I get five reviews!
Yami: (gets up close to the computer screen) PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
Author: when that wasn't desperate or anything… right?
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