Hey, sorry the last chapter was so damn long, Doing it in song format makes it seem longer than it is. Another Tribunal chapter chapter coming up in a bit.
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"Ladies an gentlemen... we decided to try a new song out that, uhhh, we haven't sung before, and uhh... Flame is gonna sing it with us," he said into his microphone. Flame had one too and she looked like she wasn't used to holding it. She had changed as well; now she wore a pair of long hot topic pants with a dagger through one belt loop, a skull belt much like Skwisgaar's only it was slung more loosely and a black tank top that showed off her midriff.
"I don't usually wear shirts like this," she had admitted to them before going onstage.
"DETH KLOK! DETH KLOK! DETH KLOK! DETH KLOK!"
"Nervous?" asked Toki out of th corner of his mouth.
"Does it show?" she muttered back.
The music started, they both began singing, and the crowd went nuts. They liked this?? But it wasn't their usualy style... maybe they were so famous already that no one cared what they played so long as they played? No. That wasn't it.
One man jumped up and began running towards them and in a flash Flame had her dagger out and pointed at the man's neck.
"Get off," she said away from the microphone. The man, perhaps cowed by her hellish eye color, backed away and was immediately apprehended by a roadie.
"Dripping blood
Bleeding red!
Go to sleep
Never wake up
Rest in peace and embrace the dark
Go to hell!
DIE!
DIE!
DIE!
DIE!
DIE!
DIE!" He sung, and something they hadn't rehersed, after he finished singing, Flame gave it her best death scream.
"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!"
The crowd was going crazy, but whether it was from the decision of fresh vocals or her figure Nathan wasn't sure. Her death scream had been pretty metal, and sounded nothing like her voice. Almost genderless.
"That was... Drowning by light," said Nathan into the mic.
Flame gently set her microphone down on the sidestage and hopped down behind the gates with the other roadies. Now the ones in front were confused. Was she a band member, guest vocals or security? How the hell did that make any sense?
"On with the shoooooow," he growled, and immediately, they jumped into The Lost Vikings.
Several uneventful hours later
Back on the hatredcopter, Nathan had again collapsed, but this time in his own bed. It smelled like... girl. Soap, shampoo, sweat. Huh.
He closed his eyes and dreamt of blood.
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It had been a close thing, when she thought back on it. She didn't need anyone knowing too much about her. That gave them the keys to really get on her nerves, and stomp on her feelings. No one needed to know that she was a renamed orphan, not anyone. The fact that they knew she could speak four different languages meant nothing except they probably thought she was a brainiac.
She wasn't.
"Hey, Flame! Wants ta play da game withs me?" asked Toki.
He motioned towards an arcade game. Dance Revolution. She hated that game, because she was so clumsy and the music sucked. Ah, what the hell. She was bored anyway.
"Sure," she shrugged.
Toki chose the song and set it to expert. Oh great. She was gonna fall off, she knew it.
The song began and The arrows started going and Toki's legs went flying. She tried to match his pace, but it was difficult. Her legs were a bit shorter and she hadn't played for awhile.
Eventually she got going so fast her foot got tangled up with Toki's and she fell off with a crash.
"Oww..." she grunted. Then, because she could imagine how ridiculous it had looked, she began laughing.
Nathan walked in just then and he stared. Flame was on the floor laughing at something, Toki was glaring incredulously at her, Skwisgaar was ignoring them, Pickles was drinking as usual and Murderface simply glanced that way once and returned his gaze to his bass.
"What's so funny," he growled.
"She tripped over my foots and falls on the ground," said Toki.
Flame laughed a few more times and finally got to her feet, straightening her clothes as she did so.
"I should probably have mentioned that even with the arrows, I can't dance to save my life," she said.
"Klutz," added Skwisgaar.
"I know," she replied.
Nathan bent down and picked up something that had fallen out of her pocket when she fell. Not a knife. It was a necklace with a skull shaped locket. Cool.
He went to open it, thinking there might be a picture in it, but she grabbed it back from him, her face stark white.
"Thank you," she said quickly, stuffing it back into her pocket.
"What's in it," he asked.
"Nothing, just... a picture," she replied.
"Of whats?" asked Toki.
"A uh... friend," she replied. Then, figuring it was no good and that they wouldn't stop bugging her until she showed them, she pulled it back out and ran her fingernail into the groove that ran along the side of the skull and popped it open.
Toki and Nathan leaned in to see it better. It was a picture of her best friend Joanna, probably the only friend who never turned her back when she went on the road, so long as she could get to a computer.
"You's a less bian?" asked Toki curiously.
"NO," she huffed, shutting the locket with a snap.
"She's my best friend, my ONLY friend. I keep her picture in there to remind me to get on a computer and talk to her every once in awhile," she admitted angrily. She stuffed the necklace back into her pocket.
"Sures," snorted Skwisgaar.
Flame turned on him so fast that her hair whipped Nathan in the face, sending wafts of citrus scented shampoo up his nose, and she took his guitar.
"HEYS!" he yelled indignantly.
She smiled evilly at him, still angry and ignored his outraged protest. This wasn't what "security" meant, thought Nathan, annoyed. She was acting like they were all friends or something.
She began strumming it, just softly at first, and then actually began playing. Not metal, nowhere near as fast as its owner but it was... complicated and sort of pretty.
"You can plays de guitars toos?" asked Skwisgaar, forgetting his anger immediately.
"Yes. nd don't ever doubt me. There's a lot you don't know," she said coldly, and she shoved the guitar back into Skwisgaar's lap (bruising his balls yet again) and stormed off in a huff.
"Sometimes, I don'ts gets ladies," admitted Toki.
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