Two day's after the incedent with Hanapu, the schools resident Rock band, B.A.D.S, were having a concert in the theatre hall, at the back of the school.
Where had Cloud seen those letters before? Oh yeah on Ravans Zippo lighter.
He met up with Vincent and Zack at the science labs.
"Oh this is going to be great, they haven't played in a while!" Zack said throwing his arms in the air, "Just a quick warning Cloud, their very emo."
They entred the large theatre hall, and picked a spot in the middle of the hall.
When Cloud looked to see who was on B.A.D.S, he almost fell over. For there, tuning their guitars, were Gabriel and Lucius, and setting up the drum kit and Hanapu was doing nothing.
"Your going to love this."Zack told Cloud. Then a few minutes of guitar tuning and electrical adustments the band were ready.
Hanapu took the microphone, "Hey everybody, okay we're going to start with something slow."
"I hope you brought your tissues." Zack whispered to Cloud.
Hanapu knodded to the other three, and they knodded back. Lucius started to strum the strings on his base guitar, followed closely by Gabriel and Cetus.
Then the lights were turned off and as the music gained as steady tempo, a spot light was pointed at Hanapu, he slowly opened his crimson eye's and his voice echoed through the hall.
'I'm sitting here,
My head resting against,
A frosted window pane,
I'm in my mind,
Thinking of all that was,
Things that I hold dear.
You used to play,
In the snowy maze of my heart,
Hidding all the pain I felt,
Letting me rest,
Rest in peace.'
Hanapu's voice was so soft and sad that it brought tears to Cloud's eyes. Now he knew what Zack had ment about the tissues.
'In my land of Winter,
I'm all alone,
I'm so cold,
In the darkness off my mind.'
'Now that your gone,
The darkness of the past,
Is seeping back,
Clouding my Judgement,
And the truth you told.'
Many off the people around them were in tears, and were hugging each other.
'Don't let me go,
I can't wistand my emotions,
I want you with me,
In my life,
To tame the storm inside of me.
It's snowing now,
But since you've gone away,
I can no longer feel the cold,
Because I'm finding out,
I'm just as cold.'
Now this is a real tear jurker of a song. It was almost like Hanapu had taken every sad and depressing emotion out of the crowd and sang them, in a voice that sounded like an angel's, well fallen Angel to be correct.
'In this land of Winter,
I'm so alone
I'm so cold,
In the Darkness of my mind.
I'm so cold,
In the darkness of my mind.'
With one final strum of the guitars, Hanapu steped back from the microphone, and the song ended. "Thank you!" they all called.
Then Hanapu stepped back up to the microphone again. "Okay, we're going to kick it up a knotch. "This ones going to be a little more..." He grinned evily, "Dark."
The whole hall went deadly quiet, "Hey Cloud, just for future refrence, when he says Dark, he bloody well means it." Zack whispered.
Okay now Cloud should be scared. Dark, normally wasn't a good thing.
Lucius started with a slow, deep harmony, followed closely by a slightly faster melody. Then Cetus tapped the drums so it sounded like a heart beat.
Then the lights went out again, this time it didn't come back on.
'It's so dark,
I'm sitting alone again,
In a cell of hurt and betrayal,
The only sound is,
The hollow beating of my heart.'
A spot light fadded into existance pointing at Hanapu.
'It's so enchanting,
But as I sit here alone,
I see your face, with a grin,
That could match a chesher cat's.'
Dark! Dark didn't cut it, this was pitch black. Now it was so cold, it was as if the coldness of Hanapu's voice chilled the very air around him. Cloud could see his breath for a little white mist.
'Now I'm slowly going insane,
Without the light of the world,
The sound of the world,
The comfort of a mothers embrace,
Or the warmth of a young lover.
The darkness is constricting,
Crushing everything that makes me human,
My humanity is forgotten,
And replacing it, Anger.'
Okay last thought of Cloud. "Oh shit."
'How can this be true,
Slowly but surely,
I lose something dear to me,
A bit of my humanity,
And I gain my enimy, hatred.
Everyday, I wish you dead,
Everyday, you grow more ill,
I laugh quietly at first,
But it gradually grows louder,
I think, "The fool deserves it"'
Now this was creepy, Hanapu's voice was no longer just cold, it was subzero. Not only that, it was dark, and unforgiving. To think this guy suffers from brief amnesia, and that he, Cloud, had found him in a bathroom blood pooling around his tall, thin form.
When Cloud saw him in that state, it reminded him of how his parents felt when they found him after his attempted suicide. How they must of felt was now clear. Afraid and unable to do anything for him.
'In my mind, I see a faint image,
Of a broken clock,
It's seconds to Midnight,
When the hand hits twelve,
All sanity goes out the window.
The darkness is constricting,
Crushing everything that makes me human,
My humanity is forgotten,
And replacing it, Anger.
I laugh and laugh, and laugh and laugh,
Nothing is better than this,
You presence seeps out of my mind,
You die and leave,
Leave me alone in myself.
And laugh and laugh,
There's something underneth my skin,
That makes everything funny,
Abolutly hilarious,
And so I laugh.
The darkness is constricting,
Crushing everything that makes me human,
My humanity is forgotten,
And replacing it, Anger.
I laugh at the world that banished a soul to the darkness.
I laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and LAUGH!'
One final strum and Hanapu burst into a fit of laughter, that rivaled Vincent Prices.
"Darkness comes to those who wait." Hanapu called.
This continued for another two hours, or so. Afterwords, when everybody was leaving, someone caught Clouds hand and begain to drag him out of the crowd. Cloud looked around to see who had his hand, and saw it was Hanapu's little sister.
She stopped just outside the backstage door, she turned, "You saved Nii-sama, didn't you!?" She asked him.
"Um... yeah." Cloud said slowly, unsure of her question.
Then, without warning, she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. Of course Cloud was totally dumbfounded.
"Thank you, Cloud, Nii-sama isn't all that bad when you get to know him. Your a kind person, I know you'll be happy again someday." With that she let go and ran off. "My names Amonet by the way!" she called back.
Cloud stood there, in a state of utter confusion. Okay so his time here might not be so bad.
So what ya think of my lyrics!? huh huh? Thanks for reading everybody. Yes I wrote these songs, I was both board and depressed. R&R!
