Raise the Roof

So, here's the next chapter. The details on the event are at the bottom.

Disclaimer – I own Rayne, Lizzie, Trip, Blaze and Felix. Xenolord owns Maria, Natalya, and Serras. Everybody else, we don't own.

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"Good morning, Battleon High!" The cheery voice of the school principal, Dr. Twills, sang over the intercom, his voice echoing around the empty walls and full classrooms of the school. The students, still half-asleep, some still asleep, winced. They weren't ready for the school day. Then again, was anybody ever ready for any school day?

After his customary greeting, the tiny moglin squeaked out, "Now, for the morning announcements, read by some of your student council members."

There was a shuffling sound, as the students took the place of their principal in front of the microphone.

"The senior volleyball team will have a practice today after school in gym A." Robina Hood read.

"There will be a choir meeting in the auditorium. For all those who can't attend, please see the choir leader as soon as possible." Artix von Krieger read. Robina and him alternated between themselves with each announcement, lulling every student (even the ever alert ones) further into sleep. This continued on, until suddenly

'Cause this is THRILLER!
Thriller Night!
And no-one's gonna save you
from the beast about to strike!'

Everybody jerked away, as 'Thriller' garbled out of the PA. Some people began smiling, as the song made them recall the school talent show with Xenolord and his class. A certain blonde headed, red bandana wearing Blaze scowled. Nevertheless, all began to listen as the song clip continued on; there was only one reason as to why they would play music so suddenly on the announcements.

"That's right; it's that time of year again!" Robina announced, suddenly sounding a lot more cheerful and enthusiastic.

"Halloween is coming up soon, and that means fun school-wide activities!" Artix added, sounding much flatter than his fellow council member. It wasn't a surprise though; it was common knowledge that he didn't like the yearly Halloween activities.

Not since he pumpkin carving contest last year, when he had made a comment on Elizabeth's (the ninja) costume; full out ninja garb, with real weapons. She had disappeared after he had said it, and, within a blink of an eye, the hollow pumpkin she had carved was over onto his head, and several kunai (including the one she had been using as a makeshift knife) were embedded into his sleeves, pinning him to the wall.

Robina sniggered quietly, obviously remembering the incident. She was not the only one; many others around the school had begun to chuckle as well. If one listened hard enough, they could hear the faint sounds of laughter, coming from the others in the main office where the announcements were read.

Recovering quickly from her giggle fit, Robina took over. "So listen to the announcements over the week, because we will be keeping everybody updated on the dates of the events. However, after the announcements, your homeroom teachers will fill you in on the exact details of the events themselves."

"These are your morning announcements." Artix mumbled, dejected as he had heard even Dr. Twills laughing at him, "Have a great day."

In all the classes, people started to murmur to each other excitedly. In on certain class, the noise was even louder, because their teacher hadn't even shown up yet.

"What do you think we'll be doing this year?" Lizzie asked aloud. The events were different every year; twists would be put on traditional ones (like pumpkin carving, or there would be completely new ones, (like trying to find candy that had been disguised as bloody eyeballs or severed hands).

"I don't know." Aria answered. "Maybe they'll do another scavenger hunt. What do you think, Hans?"

The animal lover turned in her seat to look at the blonde boy. Hans, who had been staring at her with amorous eyes, fell out of his seat in his attempt to pretend he had been looking in another direction so as not to be discovered by his crush; everyone laughed, especially Trip. As he took his time to get up and fix his crooked glasses, the brunette managed to defy her normal habit, and smoothly sidle up to Aria, subtly intertwining their fingers together. Trip was very mellow and relaxed (you'd have to be to not be embarrassed at falling over so much) but when it came to her girlfriend, she had a little bit of a possessive streak.

"Well, um..." He stuttered, getting back into his seat, "I can't think of anything, to be honest. Our teacher will tell us."

"Where is she, anyways?" Someone asked.

The door suddenly burst open, and in walked Ms. Tiger, the newly turned music teacher.

"Never mind." The unnamed student yelled.

"Uh, Ms. Tiger?" Rayne arched an eyebrow. "Why are you here? Where's Miss Angel?"

"DA couldn't make it today." Flame explained, looking through the lesson plan that her friend and fellow teacher had left her. "Something about scarves, cheese, and Idina Menzel; I don't know, I wasn't paying attention."

"Oh. Kay." Rayne replied, somehow satisfied with the vague explanation.

"Anyways, before we get started, I have to tell you all about the school events." Flame said, putting down her plan.

"Okay. So, as you all know, we're having our annual Halloween activities, leading up to Halloween and SHIRO KIBA IF YOU SAY THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THESE ACTIVIES I WILL KICK YOU." She said, the last part said harshly, even though her head wasn't turned toward him. Shiro, mouth already opened, shut his mouth and slunk back into his seat.

"There will be four events to do." She continued on, smiling a bit when she heard the class snicker at Shiro.

"Then, on Halloween, it's basically an almost completely work free day. You know how Battleon High loves Halloween." She said. "There will also be a performance for the entire school."

"Speaking of performance, Rayne, Aria, Trip, Felix, Lizzie, you are all to go down to the caf right away." She added in. Immediately, all the said girls stood up and gathered their things.

"Sir-" Felix said, ducking immediately as the teacher crumpled up a spare piece of paper and threw it at her, just missing her sensitive ears, "What will we be doing today?"

"Not much Felix." Flame said irritably, shooting dagger with her eyes at the cheerful student as she hadn't bothered correcting her gender mistake. "It's a work period."

"Thanks, sir!" Felix grinned. Rayne reached over and grabbed Felix by her tail, and dragged her out of the class.

"Nya!" She screamed, clawing at the air as Rayne pulled her away.

The pain she felt would have been more had her friend not gotten her out of the way of the hole-puncher that Flame had thrown at her head.

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"Where is she?" Aria sighed. They were all gathered in the cafeteria, not just them, but various others who took Drama and musical theatre as well.

"Second time a teacher's not shown up today." Trip commented, getting up from where she had just fallen on the floor. "Funny, considering how she has called all of us."

"Maybe she ditched us!" Felix said brightly, bouncing around Trip, her tail managing to smack the clumsy brunette in the face over and over again. "Maybe she's cleaning her car- or, or maybe, she's-!"

"Felix, she's not looking for the Trix rabbit." Lizzie said flatly, not even turning to look at her as she played with Rayne's collar.

Lizzie usually was the dressier one, but Rayne's clothes varied time to time; today was one of those times, as she had replaced her usual black hoodie with a white dress shirt underneath a black cardigan, collar out and sleeves pushed up (for convenience only), a red tie peaking out of the neck. Though she didn't often dress preppy-ish (about once a month, she did make it a habit to wear a tie at least once a week, perhaps because she liked it.

More likely though, it was because of the little known fact that Lizzie loved girls wearing ties.

"Silly cat demon." Rayne added in as Lizzie pulled the tie out of her sweater and played with it, "Trix are for kids!"

The doors of the cafeteria burst open dramatically, as four familiar friends of theirs were pushed in by the blue skinned Aquella Kellpp.

Shoving the Despair sisters, Serras, and Safiria towards on table, Aquella clapped her hands together for attention (which was really an unnecessary action, as all eyes were on her)

"Sorry I'm late." She drawled, "I was just fetching some students whose teacher forgot to tell them."

"Forgot my-"Serras started, stopping as Aquella suddenly gave her an icy glare

"-Foot." She finished delicately. "Something tells me Mister Yulgar wanted to see you, Miss."

"Well, I suppose that could have been the reason." She coughed, cheeks turning a faintly darker shade of blue in a blush.

"Oh, it's not in the way you're thinking Miss." Natalya said bluntly. "He was just about to say something, but you grabbed us and ran out before he could."

"He was ranting about it in class today." Safiria mused. "I think he wanted to have a word with you about your tab at his inn."

"Or about how you trashed your room last time you were there." Maria piped in.

"Not to mention how you got publicly drunk, sat yourself down on the bar counter, and started singing the song that never ends." Trip smiled.

"What the- you're not even- FORGET IT!" She screamed, causing many a smirk among her students.

"That's not what we're here to discuss. The reason I wanted to talk to you all is because you'll all be in the Halloween performance."

The cafeteria grew loud as the students began to murmur to one another. The fact that they would be the ones putting it on wasn't surprising. The real surprise was what they would be doing.

"We'll meet after school, in the drama room. We'll start practicing there." She told them after hushing them all.

"That's about it. You've got the rest of the period off; as long as you stay here, in the cafeteria."

With that, the drama/ musical theatre teacher turned to leave. Right before she left, she turned around.

"Oh, and if you need me, I'm going to go have a chat with Mister Yulgar; his classroom should be right above us. There also happens to be a vent; the sound travels very well, apparently."

"Oh; there just happens to be solos." She smirked. "Try and impress me, dears; if I hear something i like, you might just have the song."

She wiggled her fingers in goodbye, and walked out.

When the doors closed, the room burst into noisy chatter.

"Did you hear that?" one person asked Natalya excitedly. "Solos!"

"I know!" Natalya grinned. "But did you hear before that? We're off for the rest of this period!"

"Good!" Felix cheered. "I didn't finish my homework anyways!"

"Felix, Miss Tiger said we had a work period today." Rayne said flatly.

"...I knew that."

"She said it directly to you."

"...I knew that."

"You're insane and have short term memory loss."

"...I knew- HEY!"

"Ladies, ladies," Maria chided, stepping between a smirking Rayne and a flustered Felix, "Let's not fight. Why don't we save our energy for other things?"

"Like?" Lizzie asked, making her eyebrow cock exactly like Rayne did with hers.

"Like taking our dear teacher up on her offer." Maria grinned, making sure everyone heard her.

Lizzie smiled up at the tall girl. "I like the way you think."

Leaping up on a table, Maria grinned devilishly.

"Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya!"

"Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya!"Everyone else echoed.

"Ya ya!"

"Ya ya!"

Maria let out a trill, as the rest of the students smiled as well, joining in on the song that was practically the theme song for the musical theatre and drama classes.

'Lock the door
and stop complaining
gather round and
listen well'

She knelt down as all the students gathered round her.

'From now on
we're entertaining
how to hotten
up this hell!"

Hold your mood
and hold your bladder
skip the food
and stop the chatter

She leaned over and snatched the packaged food that Blaze had pulled from his pocket,

Can't you hear the pitter-patter?
We're not here to eat
we came for the heat
Let's raise the roof!

She sang at the top of her lungs.

'Let's make a scene!
Let's hope the Gods of Love
Will shine above
and show the way!'

'Let's call the shots!
Let's roll the dice!'

'Take my advice,' she told them; waggling a finger teasingly, 'It always pays to raise the roof!'

Jumping off of the table, she landed in the biggest path that the tables made.

'Crrrrush! The ice and shake forever!
Tell the evening where to go,
If you need a new endeavour
I can teach you what I know!

Maria pulled Safiria out of her seat, pulling her gently forwards by her collar, placing a hand on her waist,

'Grab your partner by the collar!
Bribe the barman with a dollar!
Just ignite a mighty holler!
Lead me to the trough-

She suddenly span Safiria out, masterfully pulling the brunette back into her arms like a pro-dancer.

'til the clock goes off,
Let's raise the roof!'

'Let's raise the roof!'

The chorus, including Safiria echoed.

'Lets make a scene!'

'Lets make a scene!'

'Lets hope the Gods of Love
Will shine above
and show the way!'

'Ooooh!' her chorus sang below her, 'Let's raise the roof!'

'Let's call the shots!'
'Let's call the shots!'

'Let's roll the dice!'
'Let's roll the dice!'

'Take my advice,
It always pays
To Raise the roof!'

Climbing back on top of the table, Maria threw her hands up in the air as everyone gathered around that one table, staring up at her, and up at the ceiling, where all of them smirked mentally as they hoped that Mister Yulgar and Aquella could hear them.

'Let the neighbours
Scream and shout
Who cares if they do?'

Maria belted, smiling at the irony of it as she caught sight of the vent,

'If they don't see the light
We'll keep them up all night!'

'All night! All night!' Everyone else chanted, knowing that at this moment, Yulgar was probably cursing their teacher.

'Soooo
Cut the string and set the table
Gather roses on your way,
Welcome! To Our tower of Babel
learn the language come what may!'

Spare me how the wind is blowing

When you keep the whiskey flowing

You can reap what you've been sowing,

'If you walk the plank-'Maria sang, smiling evilly, as she mock-shoved a fellow student that had dared to jump onto her stage with her off the table, 'You've got me to thank!'

'Let's raise the roof!'

'Lets raise the roof!'

'Let's make a scene!'

'Let's make a scene!'

'Let's hope the Gods of love

Will shine above

And show the way!'

'Let's raise the roof!'

'Let's call the shots!'

'Let's call the shots!'

'Let's roll the dice!'

'Let's roll the dice!'

Maria rose up to her full height, and grinned at the writhing mass of dancing bodies, all eyes on her and the roof as she sang,

'The time for playing nice is done

Before the big hand hits the one

We've got to do what must be done

So put away that,

Smoking Guuuuun!'

'And Raise the roof!' They sang, as Maria sang, 'Time to have some fun!'

'Let's raise the roof!'

'Time to beat the suuuuuuun-'

Maria held her last note, as everybody assembled around her, whether crouching on the ground, sitting on the benches, or kneeling on the table below her,

'Raise the roof!' She smirked, tipping an imaginary hat.

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There you are folks.

Now, I've got a special offer for you.

I'm accepting OC's for a Halloween special of BH: The musical!

Now, it may come a little late, depending on how much stuff I have to do. But, I'll be accepting three OC's. I promise that I'll fit them all in somehow, and they have a major (if not the biggest) part in the story.

One OC per person please. I'll choose the three, and we'll see where we go from there.

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