It came to me one Wednesday afternoon in September: How about I write a story about Ran, Miyu, Aya, and Mami playing surf music? I know they can sing, but I wondered how Shibuya would be if the Kogal Quartet (I refuse to call them a trio, since Mami is now in their company, making them a quartet) actually, well, played as a surf band, with some of their friends assisting them, as well as some other new characters. So, out this came.
This story takes place just after all the main characters in GALS! Graduated from high school, and just before Miyu and Yamato get married (oops, spoiled it, sorry) in Hawaii. And before Ran kisses anybody! (e.g. the end of GALS!) If some of the situations that happened before this are incorrect, I apologize, I heard what happened at the end, so I decided to bend it a bit…
This is a bit experimental, so feel free to review this, and based on your opinion and suggestions, I will add some more episodes to this fic. Well, enjoy!
All GALS! characters are courtesy of Ms. Mihona Fujii, Ribon Magazine, and Studio Pierrot. All rights reserved, etc., etc., etc….
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The Platform Surfers
Chapter 1
Prologue: An interesting secret?
"Ran! Dinnertime!"
The call from her mother became too hard for her to resist. She hadn't eaten anything today, just 1 day removed from graduation, twirling the akameshu in her hair.
"Coming, mom!"
Ran Kotobuki's high school years had come and gone like the wind. She had so much fun with Satsuki and Rie, and of course, Miyu and Aya, and even with that Ikebukoro kogal Mami-rin. But Satsuki accepted a scholarship from Waseda, and Rie accepted one from Toudai, and the planned wedding between her brother and Miyu…the times were changing badly…and she still didn't want to kiss anybody yet. Kanari blue indeed, she thought.
She gingerly came down the stairs, when suddenly, she saw…she couldn't believe her eyes…A FENDER STRATOCASTER!!? What would she do with this? She did take a music class while at Kounan, but she wasn't enveloped into that, nor did she care about her studies at all, yet she managed to graduate and succeed in the juken, but a Fender Stratocaster? Geez…
"Mom, what is this!!?" she cried, a bit flabbergasted that she didn't see a banquet set out. Or some type of makeup set, or such. "Why did you…"
"Because you have been doing so well, helping fix up the community, and making me and your dad proud, I decided to hand you my father's old, polished guitar," said Kiyoka, beaming with delight. "Don't you like it?"
"But, mom, I don't even know how to play a guitar yet!"
"Well, I can teach you how to play it…"
"NO NO NO!!! I don't want to be sitting in my room, messing around with some stupid antique that I don't need! I'm going to my room." She ran up the stairs to her room, when…
"Ah well, this guitar was used at your high school's graduation, with my permission, as well as at the Dicot concert that you and your friends attended. It was even auctioned at Sotheby's in Akihabara for $160,000... And just like the tradition of police officers, this was passed down from generations on my side of the family…and you don't want it? Oh my…and if you are popular with it, you won't have to be begging for money anymore"
When Ran heard the "$160,000," and "no begging," she ran backwards towards her mom. "R-r-r-r-really?" she said, drooling.
"Come. I'll teach you how to play it."
Kiyoka led Ran to a small room downstairs in the basement, in which she had a key. "You have never seen this room, but now I'll show you, since you graduated…"
"What about Sayo?" Ran said, holding the Fender guitar.
"I already told her that we're going to the park to chat."
"You liar," Ran said playfully, with a giggle. Her mom was like that at times.
As Kiyoka opened the door, and turned the lights on, Ran started to have stars in her eyes. There were posters of every know artist in Japan, as well as some surf bands, which Kiyoka and Ran father Taizo took to fetish.
"See that poster over there?" said Kiyoka, pointing to a picture of four old men, and above it, "The Ventures."
"The…Ventures?" Ran said. "Why…that?"
"Because my father was an avid Ventures fan. (He was old at the time, maybe into his 50's) He would play on the guitar you're holding and play songs like 'Walk-Don't Run,' 'Surf Rider,' 'Slaughter On Tenth Avenue,' and my personal favorite…'Sukiyaki.'"
"'Walk-Don't Run,' 'Surf Rider,' 'Slaughter On Tenth Avenue'…so what's your point?" Ran asked, in question.
"He wrote in his will and last testament that he will pass this Fender to you when he dies, and when you graduate from high school." A few tears were forming in Kiyoka's eyes when she mentioned her father.
"Mom…" Ran said, trying to comfort her.
"So now, you have this guitar to play with, as a supplement to preparing for the police or whatever you want to do, but…you must not damage it, or else…"
"Or else what?…" she said quizzically.
Kiyoka said sternly, "Or else you have to leave the house for good."
"L-l-l-l-leave the house!!? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Ran squealed, clutching her mom, bawling wildly. (author: think Tsukino Usagi…-_-) "Please let me stay, I'm so poor, poor, poor, poor, poooooor, hmmmmmm…."
"All right, all right, just let go of me," said Kiyoka with a grin, and Ran complied, "and let me show you how to use this. I'm used to playing a Fender Ventures' style, like this."
She played a few riffs of "Walk-Don't Run," as well as Wipe Out.
"Kakoii! That's awesome! I can't believe you can actually play that!"
"I've been trained well," said mother with a straight face. "Now, you try."
Ran tried to strum, but as she strummed, it was so out of tune, that…"Okay, okay, Ran, maybe you need a little bit of practice…"
"Mom, I'm trying but…I don't even care about an instrument like this…(and I should be going to that karaoke bar, damn)…can I leave now?"
"Not yet. You must learn how to play "Walk-Don't Run" first."
"Oh, crap…"
"Remember, this guitar now goes everywhere you go…"
"THAT TOO!!? I've already have enough to carry, with my purse, now this?"
"Ah, but there is a case that goes with that."
She pointed to Ran a big, yet cute-lloking pink guitar case, decorated with hibiscus decorations, pretty flower motifs, and had Ran's full name written on it, in Japanese and English.
"Wow!" Ran said, stars (author: those circles with the crosses/stars in them) forming in her eyes. "I guess I can keep this after all."
"Also, there is a feature, that changes the look of the guitar itself, it can also double as a koto. Watch this." Kiyoka presses a button next to the volume tuner on the guitar, and it changed itself into a koto, although it looked more like a cross between the two.
"Whoa…this isn't no ordinary Stratocaster…"
"You can press it back to it's original form," she said, pressing the same button to change it back to the guitar, "and you can change the color of it too." Kiyoka turned a small pink knob next to the whammy bar, and it changed colors.
"Okay, okay, okay, I want it, I want it, I want it!!!"
"Here you go, Ran," Kiyoka said, as she gave the case with guitar/koto inside to Ran. "Keep it nice and tight in your room…"
"Sankyu, mom!"
As Ran dragged the instrument to her room, Taizo saw her and he said back to his wife, "Good work, Kiyoka."
She let out a puff of relief.
"Of course, I wanted to get that one out of the room anyway."
END OF PROLOGUE
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So, what do you folks think? E-mail me at res0phrv@verizon.net, and tell me what do you guys think? In the next installment, Ran shows her instrument to Aya and Miyu at Mami's rather swanky mansion (they were invited to her house-actually, they can come anytime. As well as their friends and family. I'm assuming that at the time Ran and Mami aren't rivals just like they used to be, although sometimes they like to argue a bit.) But then Rei, Yamato, Yuuya, and even Tatsuki arrive, and suddenly…Oh, I'm spoiling it for you, so check it out, in Chapter 2 coming soon!
This story takes place just after all the main characters in GALS! Graduated from high school, and just before Miyu and Yamato get married (oops, spoiled it, sorry) in Hawaii. And before Ran kisses anybody! (e.g. the end of GALS!) If some of the situations that happened before this are incorrect, I apologize, I heard what happened at the end, so I decided to bend it a bit…
This is a bit experimental, so feel free to review this, and based on your opinion and suggestions, I will add some more episodes to this fic. Well, enjoy!
All GALS! characters are courtesy of Ms. Mihona Fujii, Ribon Magazine, and Studio Pierrot. All rights reserved, etc., etc., etc….
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The Platform Surfers
Chapter 1
Prologue: An interesting secret?
"Ran! Dinnertime!"
The call from her mother became too hard for her to resist. She hadn't eaten anything today, just 1 day removed from graduation, twirling the akameshu in her hair.
"Coming, mom!"
Ran Kotobuki's high school years had come and gone like the wind. She had so much fun with Satsuki and Rie, and of course, Miyu and Aya, and even with that Ikebukoro kogal Mami-rin. But Satsuki accepted a scholarship from Waseda, and Rie accepted one from Toudai, and the planned wedding between her brother and Miyu…the times were changing badly…and she still didn't want to kiss anybody yet. Kanari blue indeed, she thought.
She gingerly came down the stairs, when suddenly, she saw…she couldn't believe her eyes…A FENDER STRATOCASTER!!? What would she do with this? She did take a music class while at Kounan, but she wasn't enveloped into that, nor did she care about her studies at all, yet she managed to graduate and succeed in the juken, but a Fender Stratocaster? Geez…
"Mom, what is this!!?" she cried, a bit flabbergasted that she didn't see a banquet set out. Or some type of makeup set, or such. "Why did you…"
"Because you have been doing so well, helping fix up the community, and making me and your dad proud, I decided to hand you my father's old, polished guitar," said Kiyoka, beaming with delight. "Don't you like it?"
"But, mom, I don't even know how to play a guitar yet!"
"Well, I can teach you how to play it…"
"NO NO NO!!! I don't want to be sitting in my room, messing around with some stupid antique that I don't need! I'm going to my room." She ran up the stairs to her room, when…
"Ah well, this guitar was used at your high school's graduation, with my permission, as well as at the Dicot concert that you and your friends attended. It was even auctioned at Sotheby's in Akihabara for $160,000... And just like the tradition of police officers, this was passed down from generations on my side of the family…and you don't want it? Oh my…and if you are popular with it, you won't have to be begging for money anymore"
When Ran heard the "$160,000," and "no begging," she ran backwards towards her mom. "R-r-r-r-really?" she said, drooling.
"Come. I'll teach you how to play it."
Kiyoka led Ran to a small room downstairs in the basement, in which she had a key. "You have never seen this room, but now I'll show you, since you graduated…"
"What about Sayo?" Ran said, holding the Fender guitar.
"I already told her that we're going to the park to chat."
"You liar," Ran said playfully, with a giggle. Her mom was like that at times.
As Kiyoka opened the door, and turned the lights on, Ran started to have stars in her eyes. There were posters of every know artist in Japan, as well as some surf bands, which Kiyoka and Ran father Taizo took to fetish.
"See that poster over there?" said Kiyoka, pointing to a picture of four old men, and above it, "The Ventures."
"The…Ventures?" Ran said. "Why…that?"
"Because my father was an avid Ventures fan. (He was old at the time, maybe into his 50's) He would play on the guitar you're holding and play songs like 'Walk-Don't Run,' 'Surf Rider,' 'Slaughter On Tenth Avenue,' and my personal favorite…'Sukiyaki.'"
"'Walk-Don't Run,' 'Surf Rider,' 'Slaughter On Tenth Avenue'…so what's your point?" Ran asked, in question.
"He wrote in his will and last testament that he will pass this Fender to you when he dies, and when you graduate from high school." A few tears were forming in Kiyoka's eyes when she mentioned her father.
"Mom…" Ran said, trying to comfort her.
"So now, you have this guitar to play with, as a supplement to preparing for the police or whatever you want to do, but…you must not damage it, or else…"
"Or else what?…" she said quizzically.
Kiyoka said sternly, "Or else you have to leave the house for good."
"L-l-l-l-leave the house!!? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Ran squealed, clutching her mom, bawling wildly. (author: think Tsukino Usagi…-_-) "Please let me stay, I'm so poor, poor, poor, poor, poooooor, hmmmmmm…."
"All right, all right, just let go of me," said Kiyoka with a grin, and Ran complied, "and let me show you how to use this. I'm used to playing a Fender Ventures' style, like this."
She played a few riffs of "Walk-Don't Run," as well as Wipe Out.
"Kakoii! That's awesome! I can't believe you can actually play that!"
"I've been trained well," said mother with a straight face. "Now, you try."
Ran tried to strum, but as she strummed, it was so out of tune, that…"Okay, okay, Ran, maybe you need a little bit of practice…"
"Mom, I'm trying but…I don't even care about an instrument like this…(and I should be going to that karaoke bar, damn)…can I leave now?"
"Not yet. You must learn how to play "Walk-Don't Run" first."
"Oh, crap…"
"Remember, this guitar now goes everywhere you go…"
"THAT TOO!!? I've already have enough to carry, with my purse, now this?"
"Ah, but there is a case that goes with that."
She pointed to Ran a big, yet cute-lloking pink guitar case, decorated with hibiscus decorations, pretty flower motifs, and had Ran's full name written on it, in Japanese and English.
"Wow!" Ran said, stars (author: those circles with the crosses/stars in them) forming in her eyes. "I guess I can keep this after all."
"Also, there is a feature, that changes the look of the guitar itself, it can also double as a koto. Watch this." Kiyoka presses a button next to the volume tuner on the guitar, and it changed itself into a koto, although it looked more like a cross between the two.
"Whoa…this isn't no ordinary Stratocaster…"
"You can press it back to it's original form," she said, pressing the same button to change it back to the guitar, "and you can change the color of it too." Kiyoka turned a small pink knob next to the whammy bar, and it changed colors.
"Okay, okay, okay, I want it, I want it, I want it!!!"
"Here you go, Ran," Kiyoka said, as she gave the case with guitar/koto inside to Ran. "Keep it nice and tight in your room…"
"Sankyu, mom!"
As Ran dragged the instrument to her room, Taizo saw her and he said back to his wife, "Good work, Kiyoka."
She let out a puff of relief.
"Of course, I wanted to get that one out of the room anyway."
END OF PROLOGUE
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So, what do you folks think? E-mail me at res0phrv@verizon.net, and tell me what do you guys think? In the next installment, Ran shows her instrument to Aya and Miyu at Mami's rather swanky mansion (they were invited to her house-actually, they can come anytime. As well as their friends and family. I'm assuming that at the time Ran and Mami aren't rivals just like they used to be, although sometimes they like to argue a bit.) But then Rei, Yamato, Yuuya, and even Tatsuki arrive, and suddenly…Oh, I'm spoiling it for you, so check it out, in Chapter 2 coming soon!