Chapter 3
Rave at Angel's
The train had just pulled into the Blackbelly District station, and the group of seven, along with several other Inklings and Octolings, stepped off the train. The group exited the station. The crew walked past the Arowana Mall and toward the skate park. Followed by some of the Inklings and Octolings from the train, the group slipped into an alleyway behind the skate park and near Urchin Underpass. At the dead end of the alleyway, a single circular grate sat in the concrete floor. One by one, each of them took on his or her squid (or octopus) form and dove through the grate. They all slid through a pipe and came out into a sewer tunnel that ran under the entire district. It was like that of a normal sewer, but the river of sludge was covered by the top half of a glass tube, preventing the rotting sewage smell from bothering those who came into the sewers. They proceeded through the tunnels of the sewer, eventually coming upon a locked narrow fence door fitted into the wall. Ninko looked around before flipping a hidden switch on the lock, opening the gate. The Inklings and Octolings slipped into the passageway, closing the door behind them. They came up to another door at the end of the passage. Ninko knocked on the door a few times. A mail slot-sized hole on the door opened up and a pair of Inkling eyes peeked out through the hole.
"We came to chill," Ninko simply said. The hole closed and the door slid upward, granting the Inklings and Octolings entrance. The group eagerly headed in and the doorkeeper Inkling shut the door behind them. They had arrived at DJ Angel's nightclub.
"Wow," Annie said as her jaw hit the floor. The club was huge and predominantly blue and a bit white on the interior. A large hexagonal-patterned multicolored flashing dance floor sat at the center of the club, at the left side was a huge arcade that held a variety of games, while at the right side had a big soda bar. The whole joint was full of partying Inklings and Octolings. Loud Squidtune (Inklings' version of Chiptune) music blared from the wall-mounted speakers. The whole joint was lit up with multicolored laser lights, blacklights and disco balls. DJ Angel Fish sat at the very back of the club in her booth, spinning her tunes. DJ Angel was a blue-haired Inkling girl whose tentacle hair was longer than that of the other Inkling girls, she was dressed in a blue and white dress and small white cap, and she had two notable traits that other Inklings did not have: she lacked the masklike black marks around her blue eyes and she had a multitude of finlike white frills growing out from beneath her hair. Danny kept his eyes fixated upon her while he followed his group of friends to the soda bar. The group sat down in one of the booths. Marie and Mike wasted no time, the minute their buns touched the seat, they began their make-out fest as Callie called it. Marie had even wrapped her tentacles around Mike's head.
"Ugh," Callie groaned, watching her sister practically suck the ink out of Mike's mouth. The others weren't too comfortable watching this either.
"If they start nipping each other's tongues, I'm moving to another table," Ninko said.
"I'm with you on that one, sweetheart," Callie said. After about a minute, Mike and Marie separated, with a thin trail of each other's spit briefly connecting them.
"I'm gonna go grab a couple of drinks for me and Marie," Mike said. Mark opened his bag and tossed Mike some Squid Coins. Mike headed over to the bar and about a minute later, he came back with two large mugs, one filled with inkbeer, and one filled with-
"Algae soda? Oh come on, Mike. Not again," Callie groaned while Mark and Ninko face-palmed and Annie just looked flat-out clueless.
"There is nothing wrong with the algae soda!" Mike stated before chugging his drink.
"3…2…1," Mark said, counting down with a tone of exasperation in his voice. Mike clenched his fists and began rapidly shaking his head.
"Woowoowoowoowoowoo!" Mike babbled while rapidly shaking his head. He then proceeded to pull his shirt over his head and raise his forearms to a 90-degree angle next to his chest.
"Here it comes….." Mark groaned.
"I am Squidholio!" Mike said with a cheesy Spanish accent, "I need TP for my inkhole!" Mike then continued babbling unintelligible gibberish that none of his friends could make sense of. Marie had burst out laughing, while Mike continued his random babbling with his eyes as wide open as possible.
"I must have TP! TP for the almighty Inkholio! Espanol? Es inkhole! Habla bah hablabablapabrabidiba! Espanol for my inkhole! I am the great Squidholio!" Mike's absurd gibberish would just seem to make less sense as it went on. Marie was practically splitting her sides from laughing. Callie, however, had her face buried in her gloved hands, most likely thinking something along the lines of "Wow, my boyfriend is friends with this guy?" Annie was really not sure what to think of Mike's odd behavior, but she and Mark just chose to ignore it.
"Does Angel take requests?" Annie asked offhandedly.
"All the time," Mark answered, "Why do you ask?"
"I was thinking about going onstage and trying to sing this song I've been listening to. It was apparently a popular song amongst some of the Ancients (in this fic, that's the Inklings' name for the humans)," Annie explained. Mark and Danny were both surprised by this; Annie had a huge reputation for being the shyest girl that Inkopolis had to offer, yet ever since they met up at the train station, Annie has shown no signs of shyness whatsoever, what's more is she wanted to go onstage and sing in front of everyone in the club. It was considerably out of character for her, but Mark chose not to question it and so did Danny, who had just gone back to keeping his eyes fixated on the Squid Girl lookalike that was DJ Angel. He waited patiently for the chance to make his move, while trying to tune out Mike's fake-Spanish gibberish.
"I will seriously flip out if Mike ruins this for me," Danny thought as he heard Mike say "Squidholio-o-o-o-o the almighty Inkholio-o-o-o."
Thankfully for the gang, the effects of the algae soda had worn off after a few minutes, but now Mike and Marie were back to sucking on each other's faces. This went on for a bit until-
"OUCH!" Mike screamed, forcing his lips to separate from Marie's.
"Are you ok, love? Marie asked.
"You bit my tongue," Mike answered while feeling his tongue, most likely checking for holes.
Marie blushed, giggled and responded, "Sorry, I got a bit playful."
"Ok, that's enough for me," Ninko said as he got up from the table with Callie following close behind. The two went to sit in another booth after buying a few drinks at the soda bar. It wasn't long before DJ Angel's tunes came to a stop and she spoke.
"How about we try to make things a little more ink-teresting?" Angel said into her headset while silently giggling at her pun, "Would anyone like to come up onstage and sing?" Annie quickly got up from her seat and darted up to DJ Angel.
"I'd like to try my hand at this," she said to Angel.
"Alright, what's the song?" Angel asked as she prepped the club's sound system. Annie leaned forward and whispered in her ear. Angel nodded, finished setting up, and slapped a spare headset onto Annie's head. Angel then switched on the tune that Annie had chosen. (I Think We're Alone Now – Birthday Massacre [Nightcore Version])
"The children behave,
That's what they say when we're together
And watch how you play,
They don't understand and so we're
Running just as fast as we can
Holding onto one another's hands
Trying to get away into the night
And I put my arms around you
And you tumble to the ground and then you say
I think we're alone now
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now
The beating of your heart is the only sound."
Annie sang as she danced and the music played loud. Every Inkling and Octoling in the club was impressed by Annie's singing, Mark especially. At this point the Squid Sisters look action, setting Annie's song to broadcast throughout Inkopolis for all to hear. Mark hopped up onstage and danced alongside her as she began to sing again.
"Look at the way
I gotta hide what I'm doing
Cause what would they say
If they ever knew and so we're
Running just as fast as we can
Holding onto one another's hands
Trying to get away into the night
And I put my arms around you
and you tumble to the ground and then you say
I think we're alone now
There doesn't seem to be anyone one around
I think we're alone now
The beating of your heart is the only sound"
Annie's song was broadcast throughout all of Inkopolis, it played through every radio speaker in the city. Every group of Inklings and Octolings in the city who heard the song threw wild parties outside under the night sky and danced to Annie's singing. Heck, even the Great Zap Fish was bobbing its head to the beat of Annie's song. Inside the Cooler Heads shop, Moe sat in his fishbowl, listening to the song. "That's my girl," he thought with a smile on his face. He was well aware that his talk with Annie about being more confident in herself had sunken in. Back at the nightclub, the party had definitely jumped several notches on the wild meter, becoming even more wild than the Splatfest parties, which truth be told, were very hard to top. Everyone was partying like it was the last night of their lives, all thanks to Annie's singing. DJ Angel even asked Annie if she would like to try DJing for a bit. Annie eagerly agreed and turned out to be surprisingly good at it. Annie sang various Squidcore (Inkling Nightcore) songs and kept the party going. One Octoling girl even hopped up onto a table, took off her vest and swung it around above her head Muscle Man style. Mark joined in on DJing with Annie, as did the Squid Sisters and their dates. Danny was still keeping his eyes out for Angel, and he soon spotted her sitting at the drink counter of the bar.
"Time to make my move," he thought as he made his way over to Angel. He sat next to her and started talking to her. They both chatted and laughed for bit and the conversation ended with Angel dragging Danny onto the dance floor. The party showed no signs of slowing down, thanks to the efforts of Annie, the Squid Sisters and all three of their respective dates.
Author's Note: Tyurru's music video for the Nightcore version of "I Think We're Alone Now" on YouTube is actually what inspired the whole idea of Annie cutting loose at the party, cause every time I listened to that song, I imagined Annie singing it, hence why it is in this fic. There will be more chapters after this one. However I'm not sure if I should include Moe's talk with Annie as a chapter. I will let you guys decide that one. If the majority of you guys want it, I'll give it.
