A/N- Wassup? It be TOBN here with a new chapter of Starring MBAV 2!
Did you like the last chapter? I really hope you did! Because I did! Jokes! Recap on the last chapter; Jesse, Monica, and Daniella were torturing Benny with plaguing memories of dentists, with the song 'Dentist', and Rory and Della ended up finding Benny while he was singing 'Edelweiss'! But is that the end to the torture Benny had experienced? You only know one thing: songs will be sung, and feelings will be...um...felt. Damn, I need to make these more interesting…
But hey! We are at the seventh chapter! Seven is a lucky number, I hope you know. I mean, that is what I heard, am I right? Three more chapters to go! I can actually do this :) At this rate, this story should be finished by November 6th, ish? I can't verify. But this is a good speed. We are doing well :)
Shoutouts to these lovely reviewers,
Mbavrocks12- Aw! Thank you! I am glad you loved it so much. It is so rewarding when you work really hard on something, and it turns out that people actually like it! I love that feeling so damn much! Jokes! Anyway, I hope Benny carries on! Will he? Will he not? Not without a fight, that's for sure :) Thanks for your review!
MBAV fan66- I know how you feel! I have the power to just kill them off. I totally should. Buuut...what is the fun in that, am I right? Jokes! Anyway, yes. Burn them all! And how'd you guess about therapy? You have no idea about what is going to happen with therapy. Us fangirls should supply some TLC! That is a great idea! Jokes! Anyway, thanks for your review as always, fanfic buddy :)
Anyway, drop a review, and make sure you sing along if you know the songs! A musical story is a musical story, after all :)
Disclaimer: I don't own MBAV or its characters. I do own the plot, and Monica and Daniella. I don't own these marvelous broadway songs - those rights go to the singers and the songwriters.
ENJOY!
Starring MBAV 2: Chapter 7: No One Is Alone
Act 7: Scene 1
"He's gone," Daniella murmured. Monica's eyes flared with rage as Jesse hissed at the litter of broken strings that once held Benny hostage.
"How could he have just...escaped? This room is steel." Jesse pointed out, looking at Monica with eyes of confusion. Daniella scoffed.
"We are in the theater." She prompted, "Who else would be in the theater on a daily basis aside from us?" Monica slammed her papers on the ground, and Daniella winced at her fury.
"It was them," She whispered, "They took him."
Silence crept into the steel room, and Daniella frowned.
"Is the plan still in tact?" Daniella asked. Jesse nodded, and Monica did as well, smiling as a shadowed figure leered at the edge of the shadows.
"We just need to make sure this musical is packed with at least 219 people. There were 219 tickets - were they sold?"
The shadowed figure walked out, and Jesse's mouth gaped - of course he recognized her, she was in the drama club. She was the teacher.
He didn't remember those sterling blue eyes, that usually belonged to his hypnotized victims.
"All 219 of them." Mrs. LOL said in a monotone voice, and Monica cackled, the laugh booming with the thunder and lightning.
Act 7: Scene 2
Ethan, Sarah and Erica bolted into the old Whitechapel theater, their footsteps echoing the whole auditorium. Ethan looked around and winced - they need to clean up this place as soon as they could.
But right now, the theater isn't what has to be fixed - it was his best friend.
When Rory and Della broke Benny out of the torture chamber he was in, Ethan couldn't have been more happier. His best friend was okay. And now it was time for answers.
On the stage was a shivering Benny, whose face was deepened with cuts and bruises. He was so scared, and so terrified - he wished he could do something about it.
"B-Benny." Erica whispered, being the first to say something to the shivering spellmaster. Rory and Della looked down at Benny, who was sitting on a chair, a towel wrapped around him to keep him a bit warm. Benny avoided her glance, and flinched at her touch. Erica winced at the action, and Benny's voice was fragile.
"D-Don't." He whispered, "P-Please."
Erica's defensive wall broke down, and she broke down in tears, letting Sarah take care of her. Ethan tried to remain calm as he demanded answers.
"Benny, please tell me what happened." He said slowly. Tears were streaming down his bruised face as music started to play. Benny stood up, and circled away from his friends, the musical mayhem not bothering to stop for anything - damn you, Monica.
"Benny, calm down. It's all okay. You're okay." Sarah whispered, but Benny shook his head, not being able to see anything through the fear and tears in her eyes.
"Close every door to me." Benny sang slowly, walking away from his friends. "Hide all the world from me. Bar all the windows, and shut out the light!" Benny sang strongly, walking away from his friends, and up the stage stairs towards the place that they controlled the lights from. Erica's eyes widened in horror - what was Benny doing?
"Benny?!" She shrieked, but the creepy organ music played on.
"Do what you want with me," Benny whimpered. "Hate me and laugh at me." He didn't look back as his fear-soaked mind told him to keep walking. All the way to the end.
"He's going to jump!" Ethan yelled in realization. Sarah posed to speed up to him, but Della explained that the wind would probably knock Benny down anyway. Sarah nodded, and they climbed up the ladder, Ethan first, before Benny could do something that he regretted.
"Darken my daytime, and torture my night!" Benny sighed, whispering a spell and shooting it at the ladder, making it snap in half as everyone below Ethan started to fall.
He was so close…
Ethan jumped off the ladder, and grasped onto the edge of the hanging platform, watching a slow moving Benny, making his way to death.
"Benny! Stop it right now!" Ethan yelled. Benny's eyes were a duller green when he stared at Ethan, not bothering to smile as he blasted yet another spell at his feet, and Ethan jumped back. The hanging platform wiggled, unstable, and Benny let himself stumble.
"If my life were important, I, would ask - will I live or die? But I know the answers, lie far from this world!" Benny sang the words like he meant them, and it scared Ethan so much.
"Close every door to me, keep those I love from me," Erica heard the words from down below, and cried. "Children of Israel are never alone!"
"Israel?" Rory whispered. Sarah rolled her eyes.
"Joseph And His Amazing, Technicolor Dreamcoat." She explained, and Rory nodded.
"For I shall find, my own peace of mind, for I have been promised, a land of my own!" Benny sang, his voice strong and heavy.
An instrumental piano played on, and every step that Ethan tried to take, Benny would use a spell to bounce it back.
Sarah, Della, Erica and Rory started to sing uncertain 'la's', like a choir, and Benny hid his face from his friends.
"Just give me a number, instead of my name, forget all about me, and let me decay!" Benny sang, and Ethan shook his head, trying to remember the Benny he had been friends with.
"I do not matter," He reassured, stepping towards the edge. "I'm only one person. Destroy me completely, then throw me away!" Benny sang, and Ethan gasped as Benny took one more step towards the edge, fear blurring his sense of mind.
"If my life were important, I, would ask, will I live or die! But I know the answers lie far from this world…" He stepped off the platform, and Ethan tried to catch him -
"Erica!" Ethan shrieked.
Erica ended up catching Benny, who seemed stunned, but started to cry, his words sung through tears.
"C-Close every door to me," Benny whispered.
"No." Erica whispered back.
"Keep those I love from me." He ignored Erica.
"Please!" She sang in the middle of her words, and Benny shook her off.
"Children of Israel, are never alone!" Erica cried, and Benny walked away from all of them, all the way to the door of the theater.
"For we know we shall find! Our own piece of mind!" The piano softened, and Benny looked at his friends with fearful eyes.
"For we have been promised," He sang loudly. "A land of our own!" He sang strongly, holding the note as he ran out of the theater, slamming the doors behind him.
Act 7: Scene 3
They found Benny in the parks, shivering in fear and since it was quite cold in general. Ethan held Sarah closely, a slight part of him feeling quite scared for the spellmaster. He was his best friend after all, so he had every reason to be worried -
"He's okay," Sarah mumbled, "He's always okay."
Ethan shook his head slightly, but murmured an 'okay' anyway, and it made Sarah slightly more better than she had been feeling before.
Rory and Della huddled close to each other, feeling the autumn wind brushing past them. It was cold for many reasons outside, and the only thing that they had was each other.
Erica stood alone in the middle of the two couples, wrapping her jacket around her a bit more, as she finally was able to see the outline of Benny's shadow at her feet. She looked up, and saw her spellmaster.
"Benny," She whispered his name again, and it sounded foreign on her tongue. Benny had years in his eyes, and he couldn't stop crying.
"I-In the halls…" He said quietly, before breaking down again. Rory frowned.
"Who? What? Who or what was in the halls?" He rambled, and Ethan pieced it together very slowly, remembering every little thing that Benny had told him.
"Daniella...and when you said that 'she' used you." He announced, and Erica's eyes flared with a yellow rage, absolutely angry.
"She raped you?!" She screamed in anger, "And you never told me?! We could've done something, Benjamin! We could've been alright!"
Benny cried on and on, and Sarah stroked his back. Tears were streaming down Erica's eyes, and Della held on to her.
"F-Fear." Benny managed to say. "T-They placed fear." Della nodded as she leaned a bit more closer towards Benny, frowning a bit.
"Fear. They placed fear...in your mind?" Benny was seeing different things, and a soft piano tune played in the autumn wind. Ethan could hear it, and the people - the extras of their real life play - started to hum unknowingly behind them.
"I want my mother." He wailed, his mind stirring with his fears and insecurities, and started to cry once again.
"Mother cannot guide you," Erica blurted out in song. "Now you're on you're own." She looked confusingly at everyone else, sitting beside Benny, eyes widened in some kind of horror. She was singing...singing….this was a part of it. The musical chaos.
She got herself back in order, and began to sing again, cradling Benny in her arms tightly, feeling him shivering like a cat in water.
"Only me beside you, still, you're not alone!" Erica stroked his hair, and the fear began to blur in Benny's mind, and memories reeled.
"No one is alone," She sang, "truly. No one is alone…" Sarah sat beside Erica, who was with Benny in the middle, on his right side.. The bench seemed to be a bit longer, like it could fit all six of them. Oh, the musical magic…
"Sometimes people leave you, halfway through the wood" Sarah sung to Benny, wrapping her arms around the spellmaster tightly. Erica smiled, running her fingers in his hair.
"Others may deceive you! You decide what's good." They harmonized, and Erica and Sarah smiled at each other, finding their friendship in a quiet duet.
"You decide alone," Sarah sang. Erica held up her index finger, as Benny wiped the tears.
"But no one is alone…" Erica added. Strings of violin crept into the autumn atmosphere as Benny rose his head a bit.
"I wish - " He blurted out, not wanting to say anything, but forced to by song.
"I know." Erica said, trying to figure out if it was just the song talking, or maybe the fact that Benny needed a bit of help at the moment. Either way, she sang anyway - not like she had a choice anyway…
Della sat down beside Sarah, and smiled at Benny, leaning forward to see Benny's tear-stricken face. She smiled calmly.
"Mother isn't here now," Ethan sat down on the other side of Benny, and smiled at his best friend, hoping to sing some words of wisdom to his best friend as well.
"Wrong things, right things," He sang in between, and Rory sat down beside him, not being able to control himself, but not really caring much.
"Who knows what she'd say?" Sarah asked, and Benny frowned.
"Who can say what's true?" Rory sang, and Erica smiled at her fellow blonde vampire, smiling a bit to herself with a small smile, remembering her dad through the song.
"Nothing's quite so clear now-" Della sang.
"Do things, fight things," Ethan sang in between once again, like the baker in 'Into The Woods', one of those musicals that lingered way to long…
"Feel you've lost your way?" The girls sang in harmony, and Rory and Ethan smiled.
"You decide, but," They all squeezed together to warm Benny up, the fear in his mind peeling away as Benny's breaths went a bit more slower.
"You are not alone," They all sang.
"Believe me, no one is alone," Erica sang, then with a smile, Ethan responded.
"No one is alone, believe me," Ethan sang over top of Erica's words, and Erica smiled at Ethan with the kindest smile that she could ever give anyone.
"Truly," She sang. Ethan smiled.
"Truly." He sang back, and a spiral of notes sprinkled around them, as Rory and Della began to sing as well.
"You move just a finger," The two sang. "Say the slightest word! Something's bound to linger," Sarah smiled at all of them, focusing her eyes on Benny, who was remembering all the not-so-fearful things in the world...perhaps erasing the memories placed in his mind…
"Be heard!" The three sang, and smiled as Benny managed a shaky grin as well.
"No one acts alone," Erica sang to Benny, and he nodded.
"Careful," He whispered hesitantly. Ethan sighed.
"No one is alone." He corrected, and Benny just nodded, the words echoing in his mind as his friends reassured him the positive outlook on the world.
"People make mistakes!" All of them sang.
"Fathers!" Rory and Ethan sung to Benny.
"Mothers!" Erica, Della and Sarah sang back.
"People make mistakes." They all joined in once again, smiling reassuringly at Benny, counselling him with a wide grin.
"Holding to their own…" Erica sang softly. Ethan held Benny's hand, and as he looked up, Ethan smiled at Benny once more.
"Thinking they're alone…" He sang, his jazzy voice echoing Benny's ears. The music paced up faster, and Erica smiled.
"Honor their mistakes!" She sang.
"Fight for their mistakes!" Rory sang, overlapping Erica. Sarah smiled.
"Everybody makes-" The three vampires, and Della, smiled at Benny, snuggling close to him. He felt warmer than he did before…
"One another's terrible mistakes!" They harmonized, the boys going lower as the girls went higher, and Benny grinned at their singing ability.
"Witches can be right," Erica sang, definitely not thinking about Monica, or even Daniella.
"Giants can be good," Rory added, frowning at the logic.
"You decide what's right," Ethan sang, happily holding Sarah's hand from across Benny's lap.
"You decide what's good." Sarah reassured, and Della smiled.
"Just remember…" Ethan echoed Della with the same words, and everyone started to stand up, the music and magic controlling them, a bit startled as they stood. Benny stood up last.
"Someone is on your side!" The girls sang.
"Our side!" Benny sang along.
"Our side!" Rory and Ethan ended up singing.
"Someone else is not." They all sang together. The piano interlude lingered in the air, and they resumed singing after a few seconds.
"While we're seeing our side!"
"Our side!" Benny sang strongly. Ethan slung his arm around Benny's shoulder.
"Our side!" He sang, nodding.
"Maybe we forgot." They all harmonized beautifully.
"They are not alone; no one is alone." They all sang slowly, the music fading a bit as Erica and Benny held each other in embrace as everyone parted.
"Hard to see the light now," She sang in Benny's ears. Benny smiled.
"J-Just don't let it go." He chattered through the cool breeze., and Erica nodded.
"Things will come out right now, we can make it so!" The two sang together strongly, and Benny wrapped his arms around Erica, who was a bit smaller than him.
"Someone is on your side…" Ethan, Della, Sarah, and Rory sang behind them, and Benny and Erica joined them, linking hands.
"No one is alone…" They sang together lowly, wrapping the tearful spellmaster into a tight embrace, the autumn sun setting behind them.
A/N- A emotional roller coaster, am I right? I guess we are going have to see next chapter to see what happens next, am I right?
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