"T-t-tur?" Noodle struggled to repeat it.
"No, luv, tour! We're goin' on our first tour as a band!" Murdoc explained to the small girl.
It had been months. Months and months of hard work and tons of video shooting to get to this point. The word was out about Gorillaz, and their number of fans were growing by the second. It was now time to get on the road, and give the fans what they wanted.
"Give 'em what they want! Tha bastards want music, and we'll give 'em at!" Murdoc said rather enthusiastically, giving his snort-like laugh afterward.
"Et sounds great, Muds. But, eh, we can't all live in the Geep."
Smack!
"Dullard, I ain't finished yet!" Murdoc sneered at 2D, who rubbed the back of his head shyly," Anyways, they got this whole place figured out for us! Bigger than the Winnie, an' with a working loo an' errething!"
"Whoa!" Noodle said, grinning widely. She turned and started chattering away to 2D, who nodded and pretended like he could understand the girl while giving her a child-like smile.
Russel thought about this for a second, "Muds, so when does this thing start anyways? Have they planned any dates for us yet?"
Murdoc stopped a second, before running a hand through his greasy, black locks. "Well, eh, they already got errething figured out. The bus is 'ere in an hour."
2D and Russel stopped, and turned their gaze slowly to Murdoc. "Wha'?" they both yelled in union, causing Murdoc's mismatched eyes to suddenly narrow in anger.
"Well dun just stand there and yell at me! Get packin!" He snapped back at them.
There was a scramble which left only Noodle and Murdoc left in the room. "Yay tur!" she clapped her hands together.
"Powerpuff Princess... go get ready," Murdoc shooed her, which only caused her to grin back at him.
Now, Noodle had learned a little bit of English in her time at Kong. It was mostly the basics that a toddler would know, sentences that didn't really make sense and with only basic words making them up. English just didn't seem to stick in her head very well. "There are too many amazing things that need to be discovered. We shouldn't worry about those things and rather learn things that we will cherish for the rest of our life," she had said once, which Russel had translated from Japanese to English.
"Arright Rainbow Bright, how about this?" Murdoc bent down a little, so that he could see her dark eyes looking up at him, "Go. Get. Russel."
"Hai Murdoc-San!" Noodle responded, bounding down the hallway happily. There. Now Murdoc had gotten rid of her. Easy enough.
Murdoc flopped down on the couch. Life was hard.
And now his eyelids were feeling heavy. 'A little nap won't do anything...' Murdoc thought to himself. Then he drifted off to sleep, dreaming of things too horrific and confusing to a child's mind, that they should not be written down.
"Bye Muds! See ya when we get back!"
"Huh?" Murdoc sat up, opening his eyes to find the three other band members waving at him, then walking out the front door. A long line of curse words escaped his lips as he ran across the room to grab his purse-like bag and throw a hat over his head.
"Fookin bastards," he grumbled to himself, walking in a face pace to keep up with the other band members. Russel gave Murdoc an odd look as he stumbled into the tour bus with them, mumbling under his breath with hands clenched into fists.
"C'mon Muds, it ain't our fault that you fell asleep," the large man said.
"Just joke! Laugh like hyena!" Noodle added with a grin as she lifted her gaze from her hand-held game.
Murdoc slouched down in a seat, turning his head to the driver of the bus. He was a small, skinny boy who looked barely old enough to drive, with a terrified look on his face. "C'mon aleady! Start up the fookin vehicle!"
The driver fixed his glasses before turning the key to start the bus. The machine rumbled to life before slowly moving down the long hill of Kong.
"Yay tur!"
Darkness.
The blackness was almost swallowing her up.
Where were the walls? The floor?
Wait, a sound, what was that?
Footsteps. The echoed around her.
And for some reason she feared them.
"Now," a voice boomed, "Are you ready?"
Light. A door was opened and a tall, sinister silhouette appeared.
She stumbled to her feet. She had to get out. She had to escape this place!
"Wait! No please!"
Her eyes widened at what was held out to her; a gun.
Salty tears spilled from the corners of her eyes. "I-I don't want to."
"Suit yourself."
"Wait! Don't leave me here!" she begged as the door as closed.
It left her in the pitch black again.
And she could hear the thunder rumbling from the ceiling.
No protection, no one was there for her.
A scream escaped her raw throat as she grabbed fistfuls of her own hair and fell to the ground.
Noodle sat up with a start, breathing heavy and eyes wide. She placed her hands on her face, gasping for air as she covered her eyes with tiny hands. Where was she? This wasn't the bus! Panic rose in her throat before she turned her wide eyes next to her to find 2D's sleeping form.
'Just another dream,' she thought to herself in relief. They were on the plane to North America, there was nothing to fear. But she didn't want to go back to sleep. No, that was wrong, she couldn't go back to sleep. Another dream. Another nightmare. It was like that movie she and 2D had watched, the one where the girl couldn't sleep because a man would kill her in her dreams. Her circumstances were a little different, of course, but pretending would probably help her keep up.
"Yosh," she whispered to herself, "Yatte mimashou!"
So Noodle stayed up the rest of the night, playing Pokemon on her Game Boy, trying to braid her hair, and poking 2D's face while he was napping. The time seemed to drag on and on before she could tell the plane was dropping.
"2D-san!" she exclaimed, shaking his shoulder until he woke up.
"Wha' luv?" he asked her, yawning sleepily.
"Done!" she smiled at him. In a few minutes they were both squished against the window, giggling and trying to get a glimpse of the ground below them.
The plane eventually landed and both Russel and Murdoc were also woken up by the little girl, who was chattering away in her native tongue.
The sirens outside, however, stopped them all to turn to the windows, which were letting the red flashing lights into the plane. Noodle's eyes widened, as she stumbled over to Russel. "Wha' happen?"
"I dunno Noodle Girl. Muds, what's goin' on? Why are the cops 'ere?"
"I'll give 'em a piece of my mind, fookin bastards," Murdoc grumbled, walking up the aisle to the door before opening it. He stood there a few seconds, eyes staring into the flashing red lights, before slowly bringing his hands up above his head.
"Murdoc-San!" Noodle yelled, trying to squeeze past Russel and to his side.
"Jus' stay there luv. Uncle Mudsy has gotten 'imself into some big fookin trouble." A sideways grin appeared on his face, almost as if he was enjoying this.
Authors Note : This one took a while for me to get up, sorry x3 I was pretty busy, I've had like... around 5 parties in the past few weeks, and school has been pretty hard on me, so I haven't had any time. I finally had time tonight to finish this and post it up. So I hope you guys like it! (: Remember to review!
Yosh, yatte mimashou - Alright, I will try