Another story. But this one is a bit different. How you may ask? Because I came up with the plot and the title all at once. (That hardly ever happens. Actually.. It never happens..)
This is kind of a look into what I wish my future would be like.. well kind of anyway..
I'll try to update this once every week. You can follow me on Twitter (ff_muiknlove) or on Tumblr (muisknlove) to know when I'm working (or why I'm not working.. ^^;)
Hope you enjoy ABT.
The only thing that could be heard throughout the apartment was an orchestral version of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls* and the sound of pages turning. A blonde sat on the couch books open around him, a note book sitting on his lap and a laptop sitting in the table among the books. He was contently tapping his pencil to the beat of the music when the door busted open.
"Roxas! RoxasRoxasRoxas! ! Ihavethegreatestluckever! I'!"a brunette blur came rushing in, launching himself at the unsuspecting blonde.
The notebook he had went flying as did a few of his books. Roxas cleared a spot off on the couch, sat his brunette brother down and looked at him. "Sora, take a deep breath and try that one more time." The brunette opened his mouth, but he held up a finger, "Slowly."
Sora did as his brother said and started again, "I just won two tickets to see TBT live in concert! Not only did I get tickets, but I got backstage passes! I can't believe I got tickets to see the best band in the world!" he shouted falling back on the couch.
"TBT? Who's TBT?" Roxas asked picking up a few of the books that had fallen.
"Who's- You don't-" The brunette was at a lost for words. "You don't know who TBT is?" The blonde shook his head, "The Beautiful Tragedy? A band from Twilight Town who became great in only a matter of a year?" Sora gasped at Roxas unchanging face, "The Beautiful Tragedy is only the best band to ever be born! You have to come with me to their concert!" he said latching onto his brother's arm.
"Sora I can't. I've gotta study for my exams. If I don't pass them-"
"Then you don't get a shot at your teaching degree." Sora finished rolling his eyes, "Roxas I know. But all you have been doing is focusing on studying. You're gonna over study yourself."
"Why don't you take Riku with you?" He said trying to dissuaded his brother.
"He has to go out of town for an internship." the brunette sulked.
"See. He's focusing on his school."
"Come on! Even Zexion takes a break from his studies. And he's top of his class in everything."
His brother did have a point, for once. 'A short break from studying wouldn't be that bad. Plus I need some fresh air..' He sighed and the brunette knew he had gotten through to him, "Alright I'll go with you Sora." The brother let out a cheer jumping of the couch, "But after that, I'm studying. And you should too."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" he said waving the comment off, "The concert's tomorrow night. Be ready by 8." Sora said before running to his room dancing..
Roxas slowly shook his head at his brother, not believing that the brunette was actually older than him. Granted it was only by about 2 minutes, but he was still older.
X-x-X
A large black RV looking bus pulled up to the doors of the tall and white hotel. The door opened and the occupants began to file out one by one.
The first was a tall redhead. He were all black with a bottle in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Next was a tall blonde, a bit shorter then the redhead, but still tall. He also was in all black, but had a dark blue tie hung loose around his neck and converses unlike the first who were combat boot and followed the redhead down a two pills he poured from a pill bottle in his pocket. After that a pink haired man walked off the bus with a cough. He wore black skinny jeans with a white button down shirt with a tie that was on as it was suppose to. Lastly, another blonde step from the bus. He watch as everybody gathered their bags with a sigh. He was dressed in an old band t-shirt and baggy black jeans.
Once everyone gathered their belongings, they made their way to their suite in the hotel, their manger already have checked them in earlier.
In the suite, the first blonde went straight for the window seat in the living. He fixed his headphones over his mohawked/mulleted hair and stared at out the window, music blasting in his ears. The redhead emptied the bottle he had, threw it away and searched for another bottle of beer. The pink haired man went straight to one of the bedrooms where a shower could be heard running. The second blonde just shook his head, sat on the couch and turned on the TV.
"Hey Axel. Did you find anything to drink?" the blonde asked, his British accent coming out strong, flipping through the channels.
"There's only two bottle of beer and there's some other sodas. What'ya want?" he asked.
"Pass me one of the sodas." was the answered.
"What no beer for Luxord?" Axel asked with a dry chuckle.
"No and there should be any for you." he commented taking the drink from the redhead as he joined him on the couch.
Ignoring the comment, Axel asked, "Have we ever played here? What is it.. Hallow Bastion?"
"Yeah, I don't think we have." the British man said with a shake of his head.
"We're suppose to go for a sound check at the club whenever Marly gets out of the shower." a quiet voice said.
Axel nodded, "Hey Demyx, heard from Mom lately? I sent her a picture from our last concert." The blonde didn't respond, "Dem." he tried again, but failed to start a conversation. Sighing, he finished off the last of his beer, went in search of another one and lit a cigarette. A door open and the pinked haired man walked out of the bedroom, fully dressed and towel drying his hair as he walked to the kitchen. "Marluxia, were due at the club for a sound check."
He nodded as he pulled a bottle of water from the fridge and coughed. Demyx was already walking out the door, so he just followed him. Axel did the same. Luxord sighed and ran a hand down his face as he walked out the door and closed it behind him.
X-x-X
"Sora, I don't think I'm up for this anymore." Roxas said as they reached the club, "I should just go home and review that chapter I've been having trouble on."
"Roxas. You know all that stuff by heart. You are here to have fun with your brother. Now come on." the brunette said dragging him into the club after giving the guy at the door their tickets.
Roxas cringed at the amount of people that were in the club. He really hate crowds and even had a bit of claustrophobia. His brother saw this a got them both to a spot on the outside, still near the front, that was. He gave Sora a grateful smile as the club went dark and the stage lights came on.
The crowd began screaming as four people began to walk on stage.
"How are you motherfuckers doing tonight?" the redhead at the middle mic asked. The crowd cheered even louder than before. "Alright, how many of you have never been to one of our concerts?" About twenty hands went up all around, Roxas' a bit reluctantly.
"Well you are in for a treat then!" He turned to his band mates. "Dem, you ready?" The blonde with an odd hair style let out a guitar rift. "Marly, what about you?" Like the blonde, he had odd hair (it being pink and all) and let out a deeper rift. "Alright Luxord let me here you!" The other blonde man did a quick drum solo before the stage lights went dark and there was a voice over.
"Look alive, Sunshine 109 in the sky but the pigs won't quit. You're here with me: Dr. Death Defying. I'll be your surgeon, your proctor, your helicopter. Pumpin' out the slaughtermatic sounds to keep you alive. A system failure for the masses, empty matter for the master plan. Louder than God's revolver and twice as shiny. This one's for all of you rock'n'rollers. All you crash queens and motor babies. Listen up! The future is bulletproof! The aftermath is secondary! It's time to do it now and do it loud! Killjoys, make some noise!"
Luxord began playing everybody else joining along with him. The redhead began singing. Sora began jumping up and down screaming the lyrics. Roxas stood nodding his head to the fast beat with a smile at his brother and listened to the lyrics. It was actually a pretty good song.
A few of the lines actually made him laugh, "Oh, let me tell you 'bout the sad man. Shut up and let me see your jazz hands. Remember when you were a madman. Thought you was Batman. And hit the party with a gas can. Kiss me you animal!"
Other lines, really made sense and he wondered where he thought them up, "Everybody wants to change the world Everybody wants to change the world But no one, No one wants to die.." It wasn't long before Roxas found himself singing along with the song.
About Two Hours Later:
"That was amazing! Wasn't it amazing Roxas?" Sora asked jumping around like he was on a sugar high.
"It was pretty good." the blonde said nodding.
"Come on! Time to go meet them!" the brunette said dragging him by the arm to the door where a buff bald man stood. He showed him their passes and with a nod they were let through to the backstage. "I'm about to meet the members of The Beautiful Tragedy! I've gotta be dreaming."
Roxas smacked him in the back of the head cause the brunette to whine, "Looks like you're not dreaming." he said with a grin as his brother glared at him.
"Here they are." a voice said and they both looked up to see the four men who were on stage.
"Ohmygod! You guys are The Beautiful Tragedy!" Sora said staring at them all wide-eyed.
"You got it kid. So do you wanna autograph or.." The redhead said his voice trailing off as he took a swing of his beer.
"Of course!" he patted himself down. "I need a poster." he whispered loudly before running to the front to get a poster.
"What no autographs?" the redhead asked inhaling a bit of his cigarette.
"Nah. I'm here for moral support more than anything." Roxas said. He nodded to the beer and cigarette, "You know those are bad for you."
It took a second for the lead singer to comprehend that the blonde wasn't a fan before he shrugged, "So is riding with out your seat belt."
The blonde looked at Demyx with the odd hair style who stood off to the side scrolling through his iPod, waved at bit to get his attention before he said, "I think you're hair is going through a crisis." He tilted his head to the side in confusion, "It doesn't know whether it wants to be a mohawk or a mullet." The other blonde cracked a smile and let out a smile laugh.
He turned to Marluxia, "That was some awesome playing up there. You had so much energy. It was insane." he said with a thumbs up which the guitar player returned.
Finally he looked at Luxord, "I have no idea how you haven't passed out from your drumming you just kept going like the friggin' energizer bunny." The whole band let out a laugh and stared at the blonde as Sora came running back.
"Alright! I got a poster! It's my favorite of you guys!" he said handing them the poster. Each of the musicians signed the posters and gave it back to the brunette. He read each of their names, "Axel Davis, Marluxia Johnson, Luxord Stone and Demyx Davis." Each one of them nodded at their name. "That was such an epic show! I can't wait to see you play again! I'm going to be blasting all your CDs for the next week." He tried to go on, but Roxas put a hand over his mouth muffling him.
"I apologize, but we need to take our leave. We have studying to do. Isn't that right Sora?" the blonde said giving the brunette a polite smile that the brother knew not to best with.
"But Roxas!" The smile held in place making the brunette cringe. He turned to the band, "It was such an honor to meet all of you! Good luck on your next show! Oh, and enjoy your time in Hallow Bastion!You should go to the Ice Cream Shoppe! It's delicious!" his voice faded away as the blonde dragged him off. There was arguing before they were out of ear shot.
Roxas looked back at the band, locking eyes with the redhead as he did as he was about to take a swing of his beer. The blonde gave a shake of his head and a sad expression before giving him a two finger salute and a half smile before walking out the door.
If he had watch for a moment longer he would've seen Axel lower his drink and stare at the door before walking away. His band members following along behind him all think the same thing:
'That's an interesting kid.'
*The Vitamin String Quartet are marvelous you should check them out on YouTube.
The song Axel is singing is Na Na Na by My Chemical Romance.
There's the first chapter for you guises. Feel free to give me criticism all you want. I'll try to take it helpfully. Tell me if you like it or not. Or you can tell me what you think might happen.
I'm going to try to get some sleep.. if not then I'm going to plan a ItaNaru one-shot for a friend.
*two finger salute* Laterz!
