*Hello Everyone! Yes I am alive! I've just been distracted by other
things (love Hina, animal crossing, sickness, make up work, etc.) But I'm
back! And we're actually going to get into some serious DDR this chapter.
Yay! Finally! And Please Review! *
Chapter 4 Perhaps I'll ask Dagger to the dance
"Fratley, how does this dress look?"
"Just Lovely. Why don't you get that one Freya?"
"I dunno, I kinda like this one too." One Saturday afternoon, the most known couple of Alexandria High prepare for the upcoming Homecoming dance, which was only in a few weeks. "Which one do you think I should get?" Freya asks her long time boyfriend.
He takes the simple scarlet red dress, with an orange and yellow sash tied around the waist, and holds it up to her. "This one is perfect." He tells her in an affectionate tone. Freya's face goes red. "Ok." She shyly replies.
After Fratley pays for his girlfriend's new dress, the two lovebirds stroll casually through the mall, holding hands, soon to be greeted by two of their friends.
"Freya! Fratley!" They hear behind them, the two turn around to see Dagger and her best friend Eiko running towards them.
"Why hello you two." Freya greets in a mature voice.
"Have you two seen Zidane?" Dagger asks them.
"Yeah and Vivi too?" Eiko also asks.
Fratley, who always remained silent, didn't seem to respond. "Why I think we saw them at the arcade." Freya informs them, "Zidane is teaching Vivi how to play that Dance Dance Revolution game."
"Ok, thanks!" The two girls dart off.
****
"Ok Vivi, when the little left arrow matches arrow on the top of the screen, you need to press the left arrow button on the pad."
".. Ok" Meanwhile at the arcade, Zidane, with also the rest of the Tantalus gang, attempts to teach their new freshman friend how to play their favorite video game. "The trick is to follow the beat." He tips his little buddy. Soon Vivi seems to be able to follow the rhythm of the steps.
"Wow Vivi! You're like a natural!" Cinna exclaims to Vivi's newly known talent.
"Yeah," Blank replies, "He's doing better than you ever did as a beginner Cinna"
"So Blank hun, what should I wear to the dance?" Ruby asks.
"That nice blue ensemble would be great." Blank tells her.
"What?! We can still ask people to the dance!?" Zidane eccentrically responds. Vivi turns around in wonder of what his new friends are talking about.
"Of course." Marcus explains, "Why did you think we couldn't?" He winks to Zidane, trying to keep the little freshman clueless of their plans.
"Why?" Cinna wonders "Do you want to ask Dagger to the dance?" Cinna start to make teasing kissing faces. All red, Zidane turns around and continues with his dancing.
"I don't know! I never thought about it." He tells his friends. "But it doesn't sound like a bad idea. I mean we are good friends and all.."
"Perhaps I'll ask Dagger to the dance." A voice interrupts. The group turns to the entrance of the arcade to see their most despised senior. A tall young man wearing a long dark tan trench coat over tan khakis and a long sleeved purple shirt. He had long white hair that dropped to his shoulder and tied in the back, with aqua eyes looking into Zidane's.
"No offence Kuja," Zidane replies smoothly, "But I don't think Dagger will say yes."
"How do you know that?" Kuja smirks back, attempting to get the better of the sophomore. Zidane gives a soft growl but it quickly turns into a confident smile.
"Alright then, what about this," The little monkey boy proposes, "If you can beat me in a game of DDR, then you get to take Dagger to the dance." The group jumped in surprise to Zidane's challenge. Even though he was the best among them, they also known Kuja to sometimes play their favorite game. "A three stage match, random songs, and most total points win. Deal?"
"Deal." Kuja shakes Zidane's hand with an evil grin planted on his face. He strolls over to the second player pad, nearly pushing Vivi off. He takes of his coat, revealing his silver and black striped tail. (Author: Ok I know Kuja has a tail and all, but I don't actually know if it looks like that or not. That's just what I read off of somewhere. If anyone knows different please tell me!)
"And no tails too." Zidane added to their agreement, wrapping his tail around his waist. Angrily, Kuja does the same.
They each put in their money in to the machine, and the game starts up. In the song selection Zidane goes over to the random. The first song pops up.
"Drop the Bomb. Zidane knows this one." Blank comments.
"Yeah but Kuja probably knows it too." Marcus replies.
The song starts up and their duel begins.
'Sorry but could I have the music louder?
Yeah drop the bomb! Just drop the bomb!
Getting sick and tired of the fossil-like system, now or never it's the time to resist 'em, it's easy to blast them all away, pull a trigger push a button say ADIOS today, don't get me wrong I'm a pacifist, the mind can do more than the fist.'
As they continue with the song, Zidane combo counter starts to go up. He glances over to Kuja's screen to see he also has a combo going, but soon loses it. The rest of the gang stands there in awe as these two combatants give all they got.
'So drop the bomb! Yeah drop the bomb! Just drop the bomb! Let me see that bomb!
That bomb! That bomb! That bomb!'
The song finishes and the two player's scores are counted. "Hey Zidane got about a million more than Kuja!" Cinna exclaims. The second song is then selected.
"Dynamite Rave? Great this one's going to be interesting." Blank says to his friends.
"Are you sure Zidane can handle it?" Vivi asks him.
"Sure, he's done it lots of times."
The song starts up and Zidane and Kuja begin the second stage.
'1, 2, 3, 4 Dynamite Rave! Come on everybody! (go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go) And get on the floor, yeah'
Soon Zidane is able to get a higher combo than Kuja, but then he is distracted by a familiar voice.
"Hi everyone!" He hears the voice say. He looks over and sees that Dagger and Eiko has joined their little group. He begins to smile as he see that beautiful smile of hers, her waving to him ever so sweetly.
"ZIDANE YOU IDIOT PAY ATTENTION!!!!!" Blank yells at him.
Zidane turn around to see his dance meter almost empty. "AGG!" He exclaims, trying to make up for his distraction. But it is already the to the end of the song. The scores are tallied, and Kuja was able to pull ahead.
He looks over to his opponent to see nothing but a smirk on his face. Then the next song is chosen. 'Dive?' he thinks to himself 'Ok, have to do well on this song. I can't loose Dagger to this creep.' The song starts up and the final stage begins.
'sekai o tomete... Dive'
Zidane gets a good start, pressing each button perfectly, with only one thought in his mind, Dagger. He never looks back to her, keeping focused on his goal. Kuja glances over to see the little monkey boy working on a perfect combo, while he keeps on breaking his.
'Keep on lovin'. Can't stop my heart mou watashi ga tomaranai kono ai ni tobikonde yuku Dive to the night!'
The song finishes, Zidane falls over in exhaustion as he presses the last step, completing his combo. The scores are tallied, and Zidane beat Kuja by a million points. His friends help him off the pad, as he sees Kuja leave, not even glancing at Dagger, then blacks out.
****
"Zidane?" Later Zidane is able to wake up, seeing first that sweet face peering down at him.
"Uhgg."He moans.
"Are you alright?" She asks him in concern.
He sits up on what appears to be a bench outside of the mall, with Dagger sitting next to him. "Yeah" He assures her. "I'll be fine."
"Why won't he ask her yet!" Ruby exclaims from behind the bush nearby.
"Shhhhh" The three boy silences her, "They're going to hear us."
"Spying, how immature" Eiko comments about the upperclassmen's behavior.
"Yeah"Vivi agrees.
"Vivi, you know that the homecoming dance is coming up soon right?" Eiko playfully asks him.
"uh yeah" the little black mage replies. "actually, I was wondering.."
"Yes?"
"Would you like to go to the homecoming dance with me?"
"Why Vivi I thought you'll never ask." Eiko gives Vivi a big hug, almost knocking him over.
*Wow! Ok THIS is probably the longest chapter I've ever written. I hope everyone likes to the selections of songs I used. I could have used different harder ones, like Paranoia or Trip Machine, but I thought I just use ones that I actually can play so can visualize them actually dancing to them. Any ways they could be doing trick or Maniac for all I know. Like how I also put some of the lyrics of the songs they play to in it? (Sorry for having one song in Japanese but that's what that song is in.) If you're not familiar with any of these songs, you can still go to widmayer.tzo.com/pinkgirl/ddr.html to listen to them.
And, I would also like to explain some of things about the game, like combos, that have been mention. If you get Perfects or Greats repeatedly, you start to get a combo. On the screen, it shows how many steps you got in that combo as you're playing. You break combos when you get some thing lower than a Perfect or a Great, like maybe a Almost or a Miss. Then you have to start up again with another combo. The higher the combos you can make, the more points you get. To get a perfect combo, of course, is to get a perfect or a great on every single step in that entire song, which is actually kinda hard to do.
Well see you later with the next chapter. Sorry for not updating for a while (and such a long endnote too ^_^;)*
Chapter 4 Perhaps I'll ask Dagger to the dance
"Fratley, how does this dress look?"
"Just Lovely. Why don't you get that one Freya?"
"I dunno, I kinda like this one too." One Saturday afternoon, the most known couple of Alexandria High prepare for the upcoming Homecoming dance, which was only in a few weeks. "Which one do you think I should get?" Freya asks her long time boyfriend.
He takes the simple scarlet red dress, with an orange and yellow sash tied around the waist, and holds it up to her. "This one is perfect." He tells her in an affectionate tone. Freya's face goes red. "Ok." She shyly replies.
After Fratley pays for his girlfriend's new dress, the two lovebirds stroll casually through the mall, holding hands, soon to be greeted by two of their friends.
"Freya! Fratley!" They hear behind them, the two turn around to see Dagger and her best friend Eiko running towards them.
"Why hello you two." Freya greets in a mature voice.
"Have you two seen Zidane?" Dagger asks them.
"Yeah and Vivi too?" Eiko also asks.
Fratley, who always remained silent, didn't seem to respond. "Why I think we saw them at the arcade." Freya informs them, "Zidane is teaching Vivi how to play that Dance Dance Revolution game."
"Ok, thanks!" The two girls dart off.
****
"Ok Vivi, when the little left arrow matches arrow on the top of the screen, you need to press the left arrow button on the pad."
".. Ok" Meanwhile at the arcade, Zidane, with also the rest of the Tantalus gang, attempts to teach their new freshman friend how to play their favorite video game. "The trick is to follow the beat." He tips his little buddy. Soon Vivi seems to be able to follow the rhythm of the steps.
"Wow Vivi! You're like a natural!" Cinna exclaims to Vivi's newly known talent.
"Yeah," Blank replies, "He's doing better than you ever did as a beginner Cinna"
"So Blank hun, what should I wear to the dance?" Ruby asks.
"That nice blue ensemble would be great." Blank tells her.
"What?! We can still ask people to the dance!?" Zidane eccentrically responds. Vivi turns around in wonder of what his new friends are talking about.
"Of course." Marcus explains, "Why did you think we couldn't?" He winks to Zidane, trying to keep the little freshman clueless of their plans.
"Why?" Cinna wonders "Do you want to ask Dagger to the dance?" Cinna start to make teasing kissing faces. All red, Zidane turns around and continues with his dancing.
"I don't know! I never thought about it." He tells his friends. "But it doesn't sound like a bad idea. I mean we are good friends and all.."
"Perhaps I'll ask Dagger to the dance." A voice interrupts. The group turns to the entrance of the arcade to see their most despised senior. A tall young man wearing a long dark tan trench coat over tan khakis and a long sleeved purple shirt. He had long white hair that dropped to his shoulder and tied in the back, with aqua eyes looking into Zidane's.
"No offence Kuja," Zidane replies smoothly, "But I don't think Dagger will say yes."
"How do you know that?" Kuja smirks back, attempting to get the better of the sophomore. Zidane gives a soft growl but it quickly turns into a confident smile.
"Alright then, what about this," The little monkey boy proposes, "If you can beat me in a game of DDR, then you get to take Dagger to the dance." The group jumped in surprise to Zidane's challenge. Even though he was the best among them, they also known Kuja to sometimes play their favorite game. "A three stage match, random songs, and most total points win. Deal?"
"Deal." Kuja shakes Zidane's hand with an evil grin planted on his face. He strolls over to the second player pad, nearly pushing Vivi off. He takes of his coat, revealing his silver and black striped tail. (Author: Ok I know Kuja has a tail and all, but I don't actually know if it looks like that or not. That's just what I read off of somewhere. If anyone knows different please tell me!)
"And no tails too." Zidane added to their agreement, wrapping his tail around his waist. Angrily, Kuja does the same.
They each put in their money in to the machine, and the game starts up. In the song selection Zidane goes over to the random. The first song pops up.
"Drop the Bomb. Zidane knows this one." Blank comments.
"Yeah but Kuja probably knows it too." Marcus replies.
The song starts up and their duel begins.
'Sorry but could I have the music louder?
Yeah drop the bomb! Just drop the bomb!
Getting sick and tired of the fossil-like system, now or never it's the time to resist 'em, it's easy to blast them all away, pull a trigger push a button say ADIOS today, don't get me wrong I'm a pacifist, the mind can do more than the fist.'
As they continue with the song, Zidane combo counter starts to go up. He glances over to Kuja's screen to see he also has a combo going, but soon loses it. The rest of the gang stands there in awe as these two combatants give all they got.
'So drop the bomb! Yeah drop the bomb! Just drop the bomb! Let me see that bomb!
That bomb! That bomb! That bomb!'
The song finishes and the two player's scores are counted. "Hey Zidane got about a million more than Kuja!" Cinna exclaims. The second song is then selected.
"Dynamite Rave? Great this one's going to be interesting." Blank says to his friends.
"Are you sure Zidane can handle it?" Vivi asks him.
"Sure, he's done it lots of times."
The song starts up and Zidane and Kuja begin the second stage.
'1, 2, 3, 4 Dynamite Rave! Come on everybody! (go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go) And get on the floor, yeah'
Soon Zidane is able to get a higher combo than Kuja, but then he is distracted by a familiar voice.
"Hi everyone!" He hears the voice say. He looks over and sees that Dagger and Eiko has joined their little group. He begins to smile as he see that beautiful smile of hers, her waving to him ever so sweetly.
"ZIDANE YOU IDIOT PAY ATTENTION!!!!!" Blank yells at him.
Zidane turn around to see his dance meter almost empty. "AGG!" He exclaims, trying to make up for his distraction. But it is already the to the end of the song. The scores are tallied, and Kuja was able to pull ahead.
He looks over to his opponent to see nothing but a smirk on his face. Then the next song is chosen. 'Dive?' he thinks to himself 'Ok, have to do well on this song. I can't loose Dagger to this creep.' The song starts up and the final stage begins.
'sekai o tomete... Dive'
Zidane gets a good start, pressing each button perfectly, with only one thought in his mind, Dagger. He never looks back to her, keeping focused on his goal. Kuja glances over to see the little monkey boy working on a perfect combo, while he keeps on breaking his.
'Keep on lovin'. Can't stop my heart mou watashi ga tomaranai kono ai ni tobikonde yuku Dive to the night!'
The song finishes, Zidane falls over in exhaustion as he presses the last step, completing his combo. The scores are tallied, and Zidane beat Kuja by a million points. His friends help him off the pad, as he sees Kuja leave, not even glancing at Dagger, then blacks out.
****
"Zidane?" Later Zidane is able to wake up, seeing first that sweet face peering down at him.
"Uhgg."He moans.
"Are you alright?" She asks him in concern.
He sits up on what appears to be a bench outside of the mall, with Dagger sitting next to him. "Yeah" He assures her. "I'll be fine."
"Why won't he ask her yet!" Ruby exclaims from behind the bush nearby.
"Shhhhh" The three boy silences her, "They're going to hear us."
"Spying, how immature" Eiko comments about the upperclassmen's behavior.
"Yeah"Vivi agrees.
"Vivi, you know that the homecoming dance is coming up soon right?" Eiko playfully asks him.
"uh yeah" the little black mage replies. "actually, I was wondering.."
"Yes?"
"Would you like to go to the homecoming dance with me?"
"Why Vivi I thought you'll never ask." Eiko gives Vivi a big hug, almost knocking him over.
*Wow! Ok THIS is probably the longest chapter I've ever written. I hope everyone likes to the selections of songs I used. I could have used different harder ones, like Paranoia or Trip Machine, but I thought I just use ones that I actually can play so can visualize them actually dancing to them. Any ways they could be doing trick or Maniac for all I know. Like how I also put some of the lyrics of the songs they play to in it? (Sorry for having one song in Japanese but that's what that song is in.) If you're not familiar with any of these songs, you can still go to widmayer.tzo.com/pinkgirl/ddr.html to listen to them.
And, I would also like to explain some of things about the game, like combos, that have been mention. If you get Perfects or Greats repeatedly, you start to get a combo. On the screen, it shows how many steps you got in that combo as you're playing. You break combos when you get some thing lower than a Perfect or a Great, like maybe a Almost or a Miss. Then you have to start up again with another combo. The higher the combos you can make, the more points you get. To get a perfect combo, of course, is to get a perfect or a great on every single step in that entire song, which is actually kinda hard to do.
Well see you later with the next chapter. Sorry for not updating for a while (and such a long endnote too ^_^;)*