Hey minna!! Jay'a here! For those of you that have reviewed, WE LOVE YOU! Anyhoo, this is not a song fic, there are just a lot of songs in it. They have nothing to do with the story, I just think they're cool. In order, the songs are: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, "Better Days" by Citizen King, "Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin. "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" by Pink Floyd, "Jaded" by Aerosmith, "Affirmation" by Savage Garden, "Sparkle" by Phish, "I'll Be There for You" by the Rembrants, and "The Saga Begins" by Weird Al. Whew! You don't think I over did it, do you? Hm. Better get to the story 'fore you guys get bored. Enjoy!
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The Tales of Mia or: "I... Just... Live Here."
"More Hair Dye"
Rowen slunk in through the back door. He'd just seen Jay'a go in so maybe with her and Shiane there they wouldn't hurt him. Maybe.
He took one careful step after another and peered into the living room. Ryo and Kento were watching Sage and Cye play a rather violent game of Mortal Kombat on the Play Station while Jay'a and Shiane sat on the couch and talked. He walked in. "Hey guys."
"Hey Ro," Jay'a said quickly before turning away to hide her grin.
"You know, I'm really sorry about the other day," Rowen said awkwardly. The game on the floor became more violent. Kento threw Rowen a sympathetic glance but didn't dare say anything.
Jay'a glanced over the situation and said, "You know, maybe it's not all his fault."
"How the hell do you figure that?" Cye growled.
"Well, my understanding of the situation is that he dyed everyone's hair the color of their armor, which is fairly obvious 'cause I can still see some green on Sages's head .."
"Shut up!"Jay'a recoiled a bit. "Uh, yeah, well, anyway, to do something that stupid he'd have to be really hyper, which means pixie stix." She looked at Shi. "Now where do you suppose he got pixie stix?"
"Sure as hell wasn't from my room." She thought about it. "Kento?"
"Uh uh, no way, not me. I hide chocolate, but definitely not pixie stix."
Jay'a looked up. "Where'd jya get 'em from Ro?"
He shrugged noncommittally. "Dunno."
"Come on. You can tell me. Just whisper it."
There was a moment of silence, then, "Oh my God!" and Jay'a fell of the couch laughing.
"What? Tell me!" Shi said.
"Oh my God, that is sooo too funny! Is that true?" Rowen nodded. "Oh my God, Shi c'mere!" She whispered to Shiane who promptly fell off the couch.
Finally, Sage couldn't take it. He whipped around to face the two girls cracking up on the floor. "It is not that funny!"
Ryo looked up with interest. "You mean he got pixie stix out of your room?"
Cye glared at Sage, the game forgotten. "I had blue hair because YOU hid pixie stix?!"
"It's not my fault!" Sage yelled back.
"Like hell –"
"What a great idea!" Shiane yelled, completely ignoring the developing fight.
"Dude, Sage, Cye shut up. You guys gotta hear this great idea," Jay said.
"Ro, tell 'em your idea."
"I don't wanna hear it," Cye said, folding his arms.
"Trust us, you'll like it," Shi said. "Don't you trust us?" Jay'a and Shiane gave him puppy dog faces.
"Well, yeah, I do..."
"Great, here's the plan," Jay'a said. "We're gonna have some fun with the Warlords." She grinned. "And hair dye."
"Why are we dying the Warlords' hair?" Ryo asked.
"Call it a peace offering idea." She nodded to Sage and Cye.
"Ah, I see."
"I think we'll need some inside help on this one though," Shiane said. "I'll be back," She added, Arnold Schwarzenegger style.
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"... So that's the basic idea," Jay'a finished explaining to Kayura.
"Sounds like fun to me. The four of them have been really annoying lately."
"So how are we gonna split up and do this?" Ryo asked.
Shiane shrugged. "Um, I dunno. Who wants to work with Rowen?" Rowen's face fell when no one answered. "Right, well –"
"Hey Shi," Sage said, "Can Cye and I work together? We just got a really good idea."
"Sure. Who do you want?"
"Cale."
"Dude! I just got the coolest idea for Sehkmet! Can I work by myself?"
"Yeah, sure Jay'a - Oh my God, I just had the best idea for Dais. Kento, you're going to love this. You, me and Rowen. Oh yeah, this is perfect."
"So that leaves Anubis for Ryo and Kayura. You two all good by that?"
Kayura grinned. "I have a couple of possible ideas."
"Great. Let's get our stuff and go."
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The four teams (Sage and Cye, Jay'a, Ryo and Kayura, and Kento, Shiane, and Rowen) bustled about as they prepared to start their projects. Cye eyed the Warlords. "Did we really have to knock them out?" he asked.
"Would you really want Cale awake while we did this?" Sage countered.
"No, I guess not, but couldn't we have just duct taped them or something?"
"The duct taped ones squirm too much," Rowen said pointedly. Cye stuck his tongue out.
"Cye, get your tongue back in your mouth," Shiane said.
"He started it."
"Did not."
"Did too."
"Did not."
"Did –"
"Chitlen!" Jay'a yelled. "Calm yourselves," she said.
"Hey Jay'a," Kento said, "how 'bout some tunes?"
"Good call. What do you guys want?"
"None of that chick stuff." Ryo made a face.
Shiane turned to him indignantly. "And just what qualifies as "chick stuff"?"
"You know, chick stuff..."
"Whatever Ryo." Jay'a stopped Shiane from attacking Ryo for his comment, then disappeared. She returned a few minutes later with a CD player and a stack of CDs. "This should hold us for a while." Soon everyone was singing along.
"... Walk this way, talk this way..."
"... I've seen better days, I been the star of many plays. I've seen better days..."
"... Sunny came home to her favorite room. Sunny sat down in the kitchen..."
Everyone was working diligently. Shiane glanced over to see what Jay'a was up to. "Uh oh." Jay'a grinned and they both started cracking up. "Jay'a's gone dot-happy again!" [AN: Sorry, inside joke.]
"Hey now, I like dots!"
Kayura looked over. "JayÕa that looks so cool!"
The guys all shrugged at each other. Girls sure could be weird sometimes.
"Hey Kayura, what're you up to?"
"Check it out."
"Dude, I didn't even think that was possible."
"That is so cool."
"Great job you two!"
"Cye, Sage, that's gonna look awesome when you're done," Kento said.
"Yes it will, won't it." Sage said proudly.
"I like what you're doing with Dais. We're definitely gonna have to send pictures to Mina and the girls.""Hey Shi, do you have the little white feather thingys that go with that," Jay'a asked.
"Yep, got 'em right here. Hey where's the hair gel?"
"I think Sage and Cye used it all," Rowen said.
"Oh. Of course."
"Guys shut up, I like this song."
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher leave them kids alone.
Hey teacher - leave them kids alone.
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"That's such a good song," Cye said when the song ended and the next one began.
"I know, I love Pink Floyd" Jay'a said.
"Aerosmith's more my style though," commented Shi.
"... My my baby blue, Yeah I'm thinkin' 'bout you, my my baby blue. Yeah you're so Jaded, and I'm the one that Jaded you..."
"... I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned..."
"Whoa, whoa guys shut up a sec," Jay'a said. "You have to listen to this song. It's so weird."
The pressure builds.
You buy a gift.
You're hoping that your dread will lift.
It glitters on her like a glass.
You shudder as it comes to pass.
Apologize, to Luce and Lil.
Converse with Ed, a drive with Jill.
Your friends confine you in their worlds,
One by one, a string of pearls.
Confused you say.
This isn't me.
You hover in their unity.
Ashamed you slowly lose your grasp,
Release the links, undo the clasp.
The skin that drips down, off the tree,
Or peals back slowly, from your knee,
Erupts into your, lung and heart,
You laugh and laughing...
Fall apart.
Laughing laughing fall apart,
Laughing laughing fall apart,
Laughing laughing fall apart,
Laughing laughing fall apart,
Laughing laughing fall apart,
Laughing laughing fall apart,
Laughing laughing fall apart, (etc. etc. five more times w/ a break between the fourth and fifth chorus to get faster)
"Jay'a, that is a truely bizarre song," Sage said.
"Yeah, but it's cool though, isn't it?"
"I guess..."
"... Still in bed at ten, work began at eight. Burned you're breakfast, so far, things are going great..."
"... Oh my my, this here Anakin guy, May be Vader some day later - now he's just a small fry..."
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"So when do you think they're gonna show up?" Kayura asked from the love seat in Mia's living room.
Sage checked his watch. "Shouldn't be too long now. Where'd Shi and Jay go? They'll miss it."
"I think they went to get the video camera and the polaroid," Ryo answered as he absently stroked White Blaze.
"Hey, we're back! Did we miss anything?"
"Nope, they're not here yet."
"Cool." Shiane, with the video camera, stationed herself in one corner, while Jay'a took the polaroid to another corner.
As soon as they were settled, the front door opened and slammed shut. "Kayura!" Anubis yelled. "Are you here?"
"In the living room," she replied as nonchalantly as possible.
Shiane and Jay'a readied themselves. The Warlords didn't even notice them as they charged into the living room, Anubis dragging along a babbling, incoherent Dais, and Sehkmet pulling Cale, who was on the verge of tears.
"Kayura, we were viciously attacked earlier today!"
She took one look at Anubis's yellow plaid hair and suddenly became very interested in her fingernails. "Oh really?" she said, trying to hide her smile.
"Yes! Look at what they did to us! Look at Cale! He's almost in tears!"
Sage caught Cale's glance and nodded appreciatively at his hair - an exact duplicate of Sage's own. "I like the style Cale. It's very well done. A big improvement." He grinned and just couldn't resist. "I couldn't have done a better job myself."
That was it. Cale lost it. He burst into tears. "I look like Halo!" he wailed.
White Blaze, now thoroughly disturbed from his nap and just plain disgusted by the whole affair, got up to leave. He was almost in the clear when Dais spotted him.
"Pegasus! My friend!"
White Blaze stared in horror as the one eyed man - with pink meatballs? - slipped out of Anubis's grasp and ran for him. The white tiger barely had enough time to charge outside before Anubis grabbed hold of Dais again.
"Kayura, this is a disaster," Sehkmet said. "Look at me, I have pastel polka dots all over my head!"
Kayura looked him over with feigned sincerity. "Hm. So you do."
"At least you can still see your natural hair color." Cale sniffled.
"Shut up."
"RYO!!!" Slam.
Ryo jumped and fell over the side of his chair. "Wha - what was that?!"
They heard Mia come through the hallway. "Ryo, I thought you were going to teach that tiger of yours to behave! He almost just ran me ...oh ...ver..." Mia stared into her living room: Jay'a in one corner, a mass of polaroids developing at her feet; Shiane in another corner with the video camera; the guys and Kayura lounging on the furniture; and the Warlords in the middle, Anubis with yellow plaid hair, Sehkmet with cotten candy colored dots all over his green hair, Dais the Sailor Mini Moon look-alike complete with the little white feather thingys, and Cale the Sage look-alike. Mia threw her arms up in defeat and left the room. "I... just... live here."
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Shiane here! Well, that's the last of The Tales of Mia. . . so far! We hope you all enjoyed reading them as much as we enjoyed writing them!!! Once again, please review. The more reviews we get, the more likely there is to be a sequel!