Leon here with chapter three. I had a lot of fun with this chapter, and I hope, and assume, that all of you know what a Deus ex Machina is.


Her plan was perfect: put flyers all around music hotspots in the city, wait a bit, and then hold tryouts for whoever answered said flyers; or at least her plan was perfect in theory. It had been a couple weeks since Miyako had put up the flyers looking for a drummer for the band she was starting, and she was actually becoming a little agitated at the fact that only a handful of people had answered her flyer so far. Although, she did concede to the fact that it gave Hikari more time to practice the bass, and therefore more time to look better when their next potential drummer wanted to see how they sounded like.

"So what do you think?"

Honestly, Miyako had not even been listening to the girl who was currently auditioning to join their band, and she felt slightly guilty about the fact that she knew she was going to reject her. The girl was, to put it simply, terrible, and Miyako had already decided that she would be objective in who she would let become their drummer. She looked over at Hikari who seemed edgy as if she knew that Miyako was going to deny this person the chance to be in their band as well, and the older girl bit the inside of her cheek glad that Hikari had given her free reign to decide who was going to play with them.

"We'll give you a call."

The girl who had been auditioning frowned obviously knowing that Miyako had no intention of calling to tell her that she had made the band, and she simply grabbed her things and stormed off.

"So, what now Miyako-san?"

The older girl stroked her chin thinking of what to tell Hikari, and she was honestly slightly disappointed at how all the auditions had turned out so far. There was no one who Miyako could say had 'touched' her in the way that she needed to be, and she was starting to wonder if they could actually find someone who would be able to have that type of effect on her. Sure, Hikari didn't actually mind what type of experience or talent a person had, but Miyako was being completely objective and professional in this matter, and she refused to let someone join their band if she didn't see a certain fire in their eyes.

"Let's wait a bit more, and then come up with a plan okay?"

It was an answer that Miyako herself would have been unsatisfied with if she was the one that received it, but she knew that Hikari would be completely okay with it. The younger girl was the type of person who thought that if something didn't hurt anybody, than it was completely fine. Miyako on the other hand was proudly stubborn, and was the type of person that when she wanted something, she would try, and try, and try, and try, and try again until she got it. Miyako was a champion.

"Alright."

A few more moments passed with neither girls saying anything, but then they each started to pack up their things so that they could just head back to Hikari's apartment to hang out or do something equally mundane. The place where the audition had been held, the place where the two girls practiced their instruments, was one of the backrooms of the Inoue's convenience store, and they had been given permission to do whatever they wanted there as long as they tidied up and as long as they helped around the store, on time that wasn't Miyako's work schedule of course, if the need for it came up. It was a sweet deal in Miyako's opinion, and she was glad that her family was helping her out with her music; even though they still just thought that it was a silly hobby that she had instead of being a dream.

It wasn't until about a minute later, when both girls seemed just about ready to leave, that there was a knock at the door of the room that they were in. Miyako looked to Hikari and then rolled her eyes as she assumed that it was just one of her sisters that was most likely going to ask them to move something around, although Miyako had a strange feeling inside her that told her that this wasn't the case. Can anyone say Deus ex Machina?

As Miyako opened the door so that they could see who it was that knocked, and so that she and Hikari could leave right afterwards, she was surprised at who she saw. It was Sora and she looked as if she was curiously nervous, as if she had something awkward to say, or as if the thing she was going to say was something that was not expected of her.

"Hey are you guys starting a band?"

Miyako blinked. It was an extremely unnatural way of starting a conversation, especially for Sora of all people, but the way that the oldest girl said it was more of blurting it out than anything else. It was also an unusual out of nowhere type of question, and Miyako quirked her eyebrows trying to think of why Sora would randomly show up in the back room of her convenience store to, also randomly, ask about the flyers that she had posted around Odaiba for band try-outs. It was odd; the unrealistic type of odd.

"Yeah, why do you ask Sora-san?"

Sora then proceeded to pull a flyer out of her jacket pocket, one of the many that Miyako had spent a lot of her time posting around, and she handed it to the younger girl. She needed something to pass her time with, what with Yamato putting more and more of his attention on his music, and she figured that joining up with Miyako and Hikari to start a band could be fun. Well, at least more fun than sitting around at Yamato's band practice waiting for him to be finished.

"Well I've seen these around town, and I was wondering if I could try out?"

Miyako raised an eyebrow, and then shared a glance with Hikari. She honestly didn't know what to think, and she wondered why Sora would even want to join their band. Granted they were all Chosen, but they didn't really hang out all that much with the exception of get-togethers where everyone was included. All this just seemed…weird.

"Can you play drums?"

Sora beamed knowing that what Miyako said was practically a yes, and she made her way past Miyako and Hikari to a drum set that was set up a little ways into the room. The way said room was arranged she figured it was probably for other auditions that other girls were involved in, and she sat down in the chair, or as some call it throne, that was in front of the drum set. As she picked up the drum sticks that were resting on the snare drum, Sora wondered if doing this was a good idea. Sure, she could play a little bit, but she was nowhere near amazing.

"I can play enough to where I fill in for Yamato's band whenever their drummer is gone."

Wow, what an extremely contrived and highly implausible coincidence! Miyako looked at Sora very skeptically; in her opinion it was like something out of a story that was extremely poorly written. However, all her doubts were purged from her mind when she heard Sora begin to play. She shared a look with Hikari, and she knew that they had found their drummer. Deus ex Machina? Indeed.


Fun, fun, fun.