"I am going to kill you," Heero glared coldly at Quatre.
"Um, how many times is that?" Relena asked looking nervously at Heero.
"That would be thirty times since 6:00 this morning," Duo said, calmly.
"Wow, that must be an all time record, even for him," Hilde said, looking impressed.
"Nah! Once I painted his BMW pink and he told me he was going to kill me 100 times in one hour," Duo said, waving his hand dissmissivly.
"Um, is that supposed to be a good thing?" Dorothy asked, looking sceptical.
"Squad to Atten HUT!"
"COUGS!"
"Hey, what are you doing?" Hilde asked as Jenn, Becca, and Robin stood perfectly straight and still with their fists clenched firmly at their sides.
"Squad, to parade REST!"
"One!" Jenn, Becca, and Robin all fell into a position with their legs spred and their hands in blades in front and back of them.
"I am your Drum Major Eric," a senior walked out infront of the band, clearly the booming voice from before, "As pf right now, you are expected to arrive here at 8:00 am and you will not leave until 8:00 pm. You will have a one hour lunch break and a two hour dinner, but you will be back here promtly! Is that understood!?"
"Sir yes Sir!"
"All new band members will report to former band members to learn the drills. When we come back, we will have a drill down and start the real practice. Sqad DISSMISSED!"
"CK HUH!"
"What was that all about?" Relena asked, loking amazed at what the girls just did.
"Never mind what! Who was that!?" Hilde asked, whistling as the drum major exited the feild.
"That was Eric, and he is our Drum major," Becca said.
"Alright, we haven't really stared band camp yet, today is just orientation. Tomorrow is when the fun really starts!" Robin said, enthusiastically, rubbing her hands together evilly.
"Right, real fun..." Jenn said, knowing full well what Robin was thinking, "Now, lets start with the basics." Jenn walked out in front of the group followed by Robin and Becca, "Alright, give me a parade block four across."
"A what?" Catherine asked, looking confused.
"Well, wait a minutet, first things first, what instuments do you gyus play?" Becca saked, rubbing her temples.
"Trumpet for me all the way baby!" Duo said, pumping his hand in the air.
"Flute..." Trowa said soundly.
"I play the violin!" Quatre said happily.
"Whoa Whoa Whoa! Hold on!" Robin said, putting her hand out in front of her, "This is a marching band Quatre, you have to be able to play something else!"
"Um... well... I can play the bells?" Quatre said, looking confused.
"Huh... another pit man... oh well," Robin sighed.
"Well, um, we girls are all part of color guard!" Relena said, gesturing proudly to the Gundam Girls behind her.
"Great! Maybe this year our color guard won't suck!" Becca said lightheartedly, but getting a glare from Robin.
"Hey! I worked hard on color guard last year!" Robin said, facing Becca fully.
"Yeah well, they were either running slow on caffeine intake or they just really sucked," Becca said, also facing Robin.
"Enough already! We all know that our color guard is lazy, lets just continue," Jenn said, stopping the fued before it got dangerous, "Wufei, what instrument do you play?"
"I play the Tuba! The strongest sound in this weak band!" Wufei said, crossing his arms across his chest.
"Whatever... who am I... oh yeah! Heero, what do you play?" Jenn looked away from Wufei and looked at Heero's unmoving expression.
"I play the drums..." (A/N: Okay you guys! I just saw Drumline the movie and it was the coolest! But don't worry, I am not copieing anything... my band is alot different)
"Well then, please form a pparade block four across," Jenn said, walking up to the group and arranging them in their proper spots, with Becca and Robins help.
Jenn
[HY RP DM HS]
Becca [TB CB QW DC]Robin
[WC SP]
"Alright, lets start with the basic drills, then we'll move onto the harder stuff later," Jenn said, standing out in front of the neatly formed block, while Becca and Robin stod on the right and left sides of the block.
After an hour of the 'Basic Training' which included Attention position, parade rest, left, right, and about hastes, front and center, and the proper phrase to say when completing these actions, the group had everything down.
"Now, the fun really begins," Robin said, rubbing her hands together evilly again, recieving a pinch and a shake of the head from Becca.
"Now, since none of us play it, I will need to ask you, Heero, to keep the beat. Do you have your drum sticks with you?" Jenn asked, looking at Heero who was standing at complete attention.
Without warning Heero whipped his drum sticks our from his back pokets and held them out in front of him, which astonished everyone seeing as how they were hidden from sight under his jacket.
"Well, I'll take that as a yes," Jenn said smiling, "Now, I want you to watch closely at what we do," Jenn said, gesturing for Becca and Robin to follow her.
"Forming a single line, Jenn started to call out commands.
"Mark time Mark!" the girls started to litf their heal off the ground, one after the other along with the bebat from Heero's sticks,
"Forward March!" the girls started to walk in a fashion where they would rool off the balls of their feet and move in one fluid motion, completely silent. "Mark Time Mark!" The girls resumed marching in place. "Ready... Halt!" "One Two!" "Right Haste!"
"One Two!"
"And that is called Roll stepping," Jenn said, facing the gundam pilots and girls.
"What a waek way to march!" Wufei retorted, resolved by being smacked in the head by Sally, "Shimatta ONNA!"
"That was so graceful!" Quatre marveld!
"Yeah, but it looks kind of hard," Dorothy speclated.
"Nah, it's cake, watch the master!" Duo stepped forward and then motioned to Heero, "Mistro!"
Heero glared his famous glare at Duo but started with the simple 4, 4 beat, then yelled in a fashion that would match Eric's and put Jenn's somwhat timid voice to shame, "Forward March!"
Duo started out slinking along the track, looking like he was moon walking, only going forward. He tried a little too hard however, and ended up tripping over his own feet and falling face first into the ash faullt.
"Oh brother..." Hilde said, looking away and pretending not to know Duo.
"Don't worry, it takes practice," Jenn said, reassuringly.
"Yeah! It took me near a week to get it right," Becca said, helping Duo up.
"Come on Ya'll! Follow me!" Robin said as they started to march around the track.
"Wufei, you're lifting your feet up too high!" Sally said, as she watched Wufei lift his legs up to the point they were almost hitting his chest.
"Silence woman! I am doing it the non-weal way!"Wufei scoffed.
"Well, as non-weak as it is, it is wrong,"
"Eric!?" the three band girls looked in surprise as their drum major walked toward them.
"So, are these our new recruits?" Eric asked, sizing up the Gundam Pilots and girls, recieving a mixture of glares, swoons, and dry looks (I let you think of who those looks were coming from).
"Yes, and we're working on the basics right now," Becca said, gesturing to the less than perfect ranks.
"Well, lets see your progress. Please form a parade block, that goes for you girls too," Eric said to the Gundam Pilots gundam girls and Jenn and her friends.
"Oh, Eric!" Jenn whined, standing next to Heero in rank.
"Yea! A drill down!" Robin said, jumping up in the air enthusiasticallly and then getting into rank next to Wufei.
"..." Becca just got into rank next to Duo.
"(Okay, I don't remember the exact dialog Eric says before a drill down, which is a game that see's how long you can preform constant drills without messing up, but lets see how close I can get) Band please fall into position of parade rest when I call you to attention the drill down will begin, please fall out on your honor, all previous comannds are cancelled at this time... Sqad to attenHUT!
"One!"
"Ha Two!... Oh wait..." Duo kicked a small pebble on the ground and left rank.
"Left haste!"
"One Two!"
"Woman! Why am I looking at your face!?" Wufei yelled at Sally, as she glared at him.
"You turned the wrong direction you block head!" Sally yelled, pushing Wufei away from her and out of rank.
"About Haste!"
"One Twooooo! Ahh!" Relena twisted on her ankle too fast and fell on her as, dragging Hilde down with her.
"Relena! I was doing good too!" Hilde said, begrudgingly getting up and stompping out of rank.
"It's "doing well" and I'm sorry! It was an accident!" Relena, corrected and then followed Hilde out of rank.
"Dorothy! You just smacked me with your freaking arm! What do you think this is, Ballet!?" Cathy yelled, storming out of rank, followed by Dorothy, who was also seething.
"Well, if your huge ass didn't bump me, I wouldn't have even touched you at all!" Dorothy yelled.
"All those remaining please form a smalled block in front of me," Eric said, beaconing Jennifer, Heero, Trowa, Sally, Quatre, Becca and Robin in front of him.
"...(Eric said the whole before the drill down sprawl) Mark Time Mark!"
"Right... Left... Oh shit, I started on the wrong foot!" Sally cursed herself and left rank.
"Ready Halt!"
"Hey, why did you all stop?" Quatre asked, loking confused at the others, but then realizing his mistake, he blusshed and left the parade block.
"Becca, you didn't have full vocals, so now you're out," Robin nudged Becca, who just calmly left the rank.
"By the numbers... left haste..."
"One tw..." Trowa, realizing he was the only on moving left rank, without even asking what happened.
"One!"
"One!"
"Two!"
"Two!"
"Canceling By the numbers, silent drill... Right Haste!"
"ONE TWoooo.... Oopps, my bad!" Robin covered her mouth and left rank.
"By the Numbers, Cancelling Silent Drill, Silent Drill, cancelling by the numbers, cancelling silent drill, by the numbers, silent drill, cancelling silent drill, silent drill, cancelling by the numbers..."
"Oh, forget it!" Jenn said frustrated and slightly dizzy from the string of commands and jsu left. (I am so serious! Eric rolls those stupid commands off his tounge so fast that you get lost half way through and I usually just quit.)
"Left haste"
"..." Heero pivoted perfectly into a left haste.
"Hmm, he's pretty good," Eric said, forming a new opinion of Heero, "Keep up the good work girls, and see you tomorrow bright and early!"
"Ugh! Don't remind us..." Jenn grumbled.
"Hm, wanna call it a day?" Robin asked, looking at her watch, "It's already 2 in the afternoon."
"Yeah, okay," Becca said, as the group all started to head out of the football stadium and into the parking lot, "Robin, you are going to pick me up tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah, I guess I could, but why?" Robin asked, looking at Becca curiously.
"Courtney has the car tomorrow, that little snot, and I need a ride," Becca said, of coarse talking about her younger sister.
"Hm, Well, do you guys need a lift tomorrow?" Jenn asked, looking at Heero and Relena.
"No, I'll just drive Relena there in my car, just to save you some innconvenience," Heero said, looking at Relena, who looked totally syked.
"Whoa! The BMW with Heero!" Relena said excitedly giving Hilde a high five, while Duo nudged Heero in the ribs suggestivly.
"Alright, we'll all get in big trouble if we're late tomorrow so try to be here at 7:30 so you can set up and what not," Jenn said, looking sternly at everyone.
"Right... tomorrow is going to be a long day..." Dorothy sighed and hopped into Quatre's car next to him.
A/N: Oh! You guys are soo sweet! I love you all thanks so much for the reviews! I tried to get this out as soon as possible but it still took long and it's short and probably really sucks... VoV'... Just to clear things up a little. This is based on my actual band program and we practice at SilverDale Stadium, which is basically a really nice football stadium near Olympic High School. It's alot nicer than our foot ball feild at CK because it has the yard lines painted, which is clealy visible on the astro turf. Well, short and I apalogize, sorry. I'll try to write more soon... Oh! To adress the issue that's been coming up lately about Relena and Heero's relationship. I am definatly a hard core Heero and Relena fan and rest assured there will be romance between all major couples, but I want to keep it good for all non-Relena people as well. But don't worry, it will come!
Disclaimer: Phew! I almost forgot to write ths! I don't own Eric! I wish I did though... he's so hot! Yeah, I know, I am a hopeless case, oh well.. I basically don't own anything but the story!
"Um, how many times is that?" Relena asked looking nervously at Heero.
"That would be thirty times since 6:00 this morning," Duo said, calmly.
"Wow, that must be an all time record, even for him," Hilde said, looking impressed.
"Nah! Once I painted his BMW pink and he told me he was going to kill me 100 times in one hour," Duo said, waving his hand dissmissivly.
"Um, is that supposed to be a good thing?" Dorothy asked, looking sceptical.
"Squad to Atten HUT!"
"COUGS!"
"Hey, what are you doing?" Hilde asked as Jenn, Becca, and Robin stood perfectly straight and still with their fists clenched firmly at their sides.
"Squad, to parade REST!"
"One!" Jenn, Becca, and Robin all fell into a position with their legs spred and their hands in blades in front and back of them.
"I am your Drum Major Eric," a senior walked out infront of the band, clearly the booming voice from before, "As pf right now, you are expected to arrive here at 8:00 am and you will not leave until 8:00 pm. You will have a one hour lunch break and a two hour dinner, but you will be back here promtly! Is that understood!?"
"Sir yes Sir!"
"All new band members will report to former band members to learn the drills. When we come back, we will have a drill down and start the real practice. Sqad DISSMISSED!"
"CK HUH!"
"What was that all about?" Relena asked, loking amazed at what the girls just did.
"Never mind what! Who was that!?" Hilde asked, whistling as the drum major exited the feild.
"That was Eric, and he is our Drum major," Becca said.
"Alright, we haven't really stared band camp yet, today is just orientation. Tomorrow is when the fun really starts!" Robin said, enthusiastically, rubbing her hands together evilly.
"Right, real fun..." Jenn said, knowing full well what Robin was thinking, "Now, lets start with the basics." Jenn walked out in front of the group followed by Robin and Becca, "Alright, give me a parade block four across."
"A what?" Catherine asked, looking confused.
"Well, wait a minutet, first things first, what instuments do you gyus play?" Becca saked, rubbing her temples.
"Trumpet for me all the way baby!" Duo said, pumping his hand in the air.
"Flute..." Trowa said soundly.
"I play the violin!" Quatre said happily.
"Whoa Whoa Whoa! Hold on!" Robin said, putting her hand out in front of her, "This is a marching band Quatre, you have to be able to play something else!"
"Um... well... I can play the bells?" Quatre said, looking confused.
"Huh... another pit man... oh well," Robin sighed.
"Well, um, we girls are all part of color guard!" Relena said, gesturing proudly to the Gundam Girls behind her.
"Great! Maybe this year our color guard won't suck!" Becca said lightheartedly, but getting a glare from Robin.
"Hey! I worked hard on color guard last year!" Robin said, facing Becca fully.
"Yeah well, they were either running slow on caffeine intake or they just really sucked," Becca said, also facing Robin.
"Enough already! We all know that our color guard is lazy, lets just continue," Jenn said, stopping the fued before it got dangerous, "Wufei, what instrument do you play?"
"I play the Tuba! The strongest sound in this weak band!" Wufei said, crossing his arms across his chest.
"Whatever... who am I... oh yeah! Heero, what do you play?" Jenn looked away from Wufei and looked at Heero's unmoving expression.
"I play the drums..." (A/N: Okay you guys! I just saw Drumline the movie and it was the coolest! But don't worry, I am not copieing anything... my band is alot different)
"Well then, please form a pparade block four across," Jenn said, walking up to the group and arranging them in their proper spots, with Becca and Robins help.
Jenn
[HY RP DM HS]
Becca [TB CB QW DC]Robin
[WC SP]
"Alright, lets start with the basic drills, then we'll move onto the harder stuff later," Jenn said, standing out in front of the neatly formed block, while Becca and Robin stod on the right and left sides of the block.
After an hour of the 'Basic Training' which included Attention position, parade rest, left, right, and about hastes, front and center, and the proper phrase to say when completing these actions, the group had everything down.
"Now, the fun really begins," Robin said, rubbing her hands together evilly again, recieving a pinch and a shake of the head from Becca.
"Now, since none of us play it, I will need to ask you, Heero, to keep the beat. Do you have your drum sticks with you?" Jenn asked, looking at Heero who was standing at complete attention.
Without warning Heero whipped his drum sticks our from his back pokets and held them out in front of him, which astonished everyone seeing as how they were hidden from sight under his jacket.
"Well, I'll take that as a yes," Jenn said smiling, "Now, I want you to watch closely at what we do," Jenn said, gesturing for Becca and Robin to follow her.
"Forming a single line, Jenn started to call out commands.
"Mark time Mark!" the girls started to litf their heal off the ground, one after the other along with the bebat from Heero's sticks,
"Forward March!" the girls started to walk in a fashion where they would rool off the balls of their feet and move in one fluid motion, completely silent. "Mark Time Mark!" The girls resumed marching in place. "Ready... Halt!" "One Two!" "Right Haste!"
"One Two!"
"And that is called Roll stepping," Jenn said, facing the gundam pilots and girls.
"What a waek way to march!" Wufei retorted, resolved by being smacked in the head by Sally, "Shimatta ONNA!"
"That was so graceful!" Quatre marveld!
"Yeah, but it looks kind of hard," Dorothy speclated.
"Nah, it's cake, watch the master!" Duo stepped forward and then motioned to Heero, "Mistro!"
Heero glared his famous glare at Duo but started with the simple 4, 4 beat, then yelled in a fashion that would match Eric's and put Jenn's somwhat timid voice to shame, "Forward March!"
Duo started out slinking along the track, looking like he was moon walking, only going forward. He tried a little too hard however, and ended up tripping over his own feet and falling face first into the ash faullt.
"Oh brother..." Hilde said, looking away and pretending not to know Duo.
"Don't worry, it takes practice," Jenn said, reassuringly.
"Yeah! It took me near a week to get it right," Becca said, helping Duo up.
"Come on Ya'll! Follow me!" Robin said as they started to march around the track.
"Wufei, you're lifting your feet up too high!" Sally said, as she watched Wufei lift his legs up to the point they were almost hitting his chest.
"Silence woman! I am doing it the non-weal way!"Wufei scoffed.
"Well, as non-weak as it is, it is wrong,"
"Eric!?" the three band girls looked in surprise as their drum major walked toward them.
"So, are these our new recruits?" Eric asked, sizing up the Gundam Pilots and girls, recieving a mixture of glares, swoons, and dry looks (I let you think of who those looks were coming from).
"Yes, and we're working on the basics right now," Becca said, gesturing to the less than perfect ranks.
"Well, lets see your progress. Please form a parade block, that goes for you girls too," Eric said to the Gundam Pilots gundam girls and Jenn and her friends.
"Oh, Eric!" Jenn whined, standing next to Heero in rank.
"Yea! A drill down!" Robin said, jumping up in the air enthusiasticallly and then getting into rank next to Wufei.
"..." Becca just got into rank next to Duo.
"(Okay, I don't remember the exact dialog Eric says before a drill down, which is a game that see's how long you can preform constant drills without messing up, but lets see how close I can get) Band please fall into position of parade rest when I call you to attention the drill down will begin, please fall out on your honor, all previous comannds are cancelled at this time... Sqad to attenHUT!
"One!"
"Ha Two!... Oh wait..." Duo kicked a small pebble on the ground and left rank.
"Left haste!"
"One Two!"
"Woman! Why am I looking at your face!?" Wufei yelled at Sally, as she glared at him.
"You turned the wrong direction you block head!" Sally yelled, pushing Wufei away from her and out of rank.
"About Haste!"
"One Twooooo! Ahh!" Relena twisted on her ankle too fast and fell on her as, dragging Hilde down with her.
"Relena! I was doing good too!" Hilde said, begrudgingly getting up and stompping out of rank.
"It's "doing well" and I'm sorry! It was an accident!" Relena, corrected and then followed Hilde out of rank.
"Dorothy! You just smacked me with your freaking arm! What do you think this is, Ballet!?" Cathy yelled, storming out of rank, followed by Dorothy, who was also seething.
"Well, if your huge ass didn't bump me, I wouldn't have even touched you at all!" Dorothy yelled.
"All those remaining please form a smalled block in front of me," Eric said, beaconing Jennifer, Heero, Trowa, Sally, Quatre, Becca and Robin in front of him.
"...(Eric said the whole before the drill down sprawl) Mark Time Mark!"
"Right... Left... Oh shit, I started on the wrong foot!" Sally cursed herself and left rank.
"Ready Halt!"
"Hey, why did you all stop?" Quatre asked, loking confused at the others, but then realizing his mistake, he blusshed and left the parade block.
"Becca, you didn't have full vocals, so now you're out," Robin nudged Becca, who just calmly left the rank.
"By the numbers... left haste..."
"One tw..." Trowa, realizing he was the only on moving left rank, without even asking what happened.
"One!"
"One!"
"Two!"
"Two!"
"Canceling By the numbers, silent drill... Right Haste!"
"ONE TWoooo.... Oopps, my bad!" Robin covered her mouth and left rank.
"By the Numbers, Cancelling Silent Drill, Silent Drill, cancelling by the numbers, cancelling silent drill, by the numbers, silent drill, cancelling silent drill, silent drill, cancelling by the numbers..."
"Oh, forget it!" Jenn said frustrated and slightly dizzy from the string of commands and jsu left. (I am so serious! Eric rolls those stupid commands off his tounge so fast that you get lost half way through and I usually just quit.)
"Left haste"
"..." Heero pivoted perfectly into a left haste.
"Hmm, he's pretty good," Eric said, forming a new opinion of Heero, "Keep up the good work girls, and see you tomorrow bright and early!"
"Ugh! Don't remind us..." Jenn grumbled.
"Hm, wanna call it a day?" Robin asked, looking at her watch, "It's already 2 in the afternoon."
"Yeah, okay," Becca said, as the group all started to head out of the football stadium and into the parking lot, "Robin, you are going to pick me up tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah, I guess I could, but why?" Robin asked, looking at Becca curiously.
"Courtney has the car tomorrow, that little snot, and I need a ride," Becca said, of coarse talking about her younger sister.
"Hm, Well, do you guys need a lift tomorrow?" Jenn asked, looking at Heero and Relena.
"No, I'll just drive Relena there in my car, just to save you some innconvenience," Heero said, looking at Relena, who looked totally syked.
"Whoa! The BMW with Heero!" Relena said excitedly giving Hilde a high five, while Duo nudged Heero in the ribs suggestivly.
"Alright, we'll all get in big trouble if we're late tomorrow so try to be here at 7:30 so you can set up and what not," Jenn said, looking sternly at everyone.
"Right... tomorrow is going to be a long day..." Dorothy sighed and hopped into Quatre's car next to him.
A/N: Oh! You guys are soo sweet! I love you all thanks so much for the reviews! I tried to get this out as soon as possible but it still took long and it's short and probably really sucks... VoV'... Just to clear things up a little. This is based on my actual band program and we practice at SilverDale Stadium, which is basically a really nice football stadium near Olympic High School. It's alot nicer than our foot ball feild at CK because it has the yard lines painted, which is clealy visible on the astro turf. Well, short and I apalogize, sorry. I'll try to write more soon... Oh! To adress the issue that's been coming up lately about Relena and Heero's relationship. I am definatly a hard core Heero and Relena fan and rest assured there will be romance between all major couples, but I want to keep it good for all non-Relena people as well. But don't worry, it will come!
Disclaimer: Phew! I almost forgot to write ths! I don't own Eric! I wish I did though... he's so hot! Yeah, I know, I am a hopeless case, oh well.. I basically don't own anything but the story!