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Author's Note: Well there was a mix up with chapter names, this chapter was supposed to be called "Nightmare's Tryouts", when I screwed up and called the last chapter that. Well I fixed the problem. So here ya' go. Oh, yeah by the way, I decided to make chapters L---O---N---G---E---R (much longer) and add little things to show I'm changing who we're going to like ' ~*^*~' will appear when I go from Nightmare's story to our hero's (and vice-versa), and I'm also doing another story just if chapters take longer to post.
"So what your telling me is, you want me to work for this band WITHOUT any pay?" asked a confused Spawn. "Well… if that's the way you put it, yeah" answered Nightmare. "WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR!?" as he then proceeded by kicking him in the shin, and began to storm off, flames engulfing his body. They were in a local theatre Nightmare had overrun to do his band tryouts. "When you're a fancy, selfish git like me, what's the point of money? Mweeeeeheeeeheeeheeheeeeheee" laughed Raphael as Spawn bumped shoulder to shoulder passing by, "Why what a spoiled…. AAAAHHH!" he then began to stop, drop, and roll as the 'bump' had accidentally caught him on fire.
Nightmare sighed as heavily breathed "Next now… COME ON I AV'NT GOT ALL DAY YA' KNOW!" as Cervantes stepped up. "Come with me to hell!" he loudly exclaimed. "No thanks… I'm good." Nightmare gave a weird look not understanding where, exactly, that came from. "Darkness is coming!", Cervantes then exploded. "Ok now your pissing me off, would you just say something that actually makes some sort of sense…" Cervantes then randomly yelled, "Your soul is mine!." Nightmare simply sighed "Next."
Astaroth then stepped up. "Do you have any special qualifications?" Nightmare questioned the giant. "Um…. I can play the drums kind of good…." Nightmares squared up, "Really?" Nightmare he asked then, "Let me see." Astaroth sat himself at the drum-set to the right of Nightmare. "Ok… here goes nothing…" As he rapidly began to play. He played a beat that began to shake the stage floor, it cracked in several places where flames leapt out and lesser demons (which were no more than 2½ feet tall) grabbed the edges and forced their way through, then bowing to Astaroth and continuously keeping the pattern while chanting "Burgers for 99 cents on Tuesdays… Mega-Milkshake Mondays are half off the normal price of fries…"
Nightmare simply put up his hand indicating to stop, as he stopped and the lesser demons stood up, and began to chatting to one another saying things like "That was friggin' awesome!" and "He can really play" and "Awe man, the chocolate melted in my pocket." Nightmare stared at them before turning back to Astaroth "Great, your in, but work on that riff." as Astaroth then nodded. "Ok, that leaves me with me on guitar, you on drums, and we need a bassist and another guitar….." Nightmare then pulled out a seat for Astaroth next to him "Ok now, next."
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"Tell me why we're doing this again now, Kilik?" Maxi asked heavily, as they were in an Athens recording studio. "Well if Seigfried, Nightmare, whatever you want to call him, is getting members for his band, I think we should get a bassist and a keyboard player." Xianghua rolled her eyes and responded to Maxi "Because Heihachi told us to." Maxi then put his head on the table and sighed something that sounded familiar to a certain word sounding like 'duck'.
Mitsurugi then stepped up to the table "I have come from a land that hails from far away for this moment, and now I shall prove my talent!" he pulled out an acoustic guitar and began to tune it. Once done tuning he then made one excellent strum, and proceeded with a tune and began to sing with a strange western accent "My my Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry…"he happily chanted when suddenly "ENOUGH!" Kilik yelled clutching his ears, Xianghua had two cotton balls in hers, and Maxi was clearly gone, "sorry… your not exactly what we're, ahem, looking for."
"Fine, if that's the way your going to be" he scoffed back to his Japanese accent, "then you're a bunch of people, with, well, silly names, YES! THAT'S IT! FROM NOW ON, MY CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL THANK ME THEIR ANCESTOR OF GRACE AS YOU ARE NOW THE BUNCH OF PEOPLE WITH SILLY NAMES! HAHAHA, WHO WINS NOW LOSERS!?!?!?" as he stormed off laughing. Kilik simply looked confused with Xianghua as he then stated "Okay… that was really weird…"
A weird looking kid, 17 maybe, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and some strange green clothes stepped up, right before Maxi came out of the curtains "Is that weird Japanese guy done singing?", then sitting in his seat he looked at the Hylian, "What, is it Halloween already?." Kilik looked at the guy, and then laughed "Ooh snap Maxi, he got you good."
Maxi looked at him confused "Wha… he didn't say anything!" as Kilik then responded, "Umm… I'm pretty sure he did, what are you, deaf man?" Maxi looked at him and shook his head "Whatever, dude just play some cool bass for us."
Link (I'm sure you all guessed it correctly by now) pulled the Master Sword off his back. Oddly, he pushed the Triforce symbol on the hilt and it grew tuning keys out the handle and the metal wires came down, latching to the bottom, "Wow, how so, like, nifty!", Xianghua happily exclaimed "Umm… what did you say your name was again?" He looked at her and blinked. Xianghua raised an eyebrow when Kilik suddenly burst out "LINK! HIS NAME IS LINK! WHAT ARE YOU DEAF TOO!?" and she fell backwards.
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"Great, your in" Nightmare said invitingly, but with deep purple circles under his eyes. Astaroth was asleep next to him, and Ivy was shaking his hand, being their second lead guitarist. The two had been there for at least twelve hours now, and the lesser demons were all around, some smoking, some sleeping, some drinking, some playing poker in the corner betting many different and disgusting. Everyone was ready to fall asleep, not including those little ones who already were asleep. Then, the walls rattled and the room darkened, as the door burst open with a gush of black wind.
A flaming sword came through the roof and was set straight down into the ground, like Excalibur ready to be pulled from the rock, and was grabbed by the blade. The figure was shrouded in darkness until the walls themselves became a burning lightshow. Nightmare grinned, Astaroth's face lit with joy, and Ivy eyes narrowed as her lips curled. The demons bowed whilst a few other lesser demons were unfortunate enough to be running around burning. Nightmare pleasantly stated "Why, I think we've found our bass."
Who could this bassist be? Is he the physical form of Soul Edge? Or some other evil being? And what about Link, is Kilik really the only one who can hear him, or are those two deaf?
Plus, word has it that Mitsurugi will also join the competition off of anger! Find out this and more next time on…
Soul Calibur 2: Battle of the Bands
Author's Note: Well there was a mix up with chapter names, this chapter was supposed to be called "Nightmare's Tryouts", when I screwed up and called the last chapter that. Well I fixed the problem. So here ya' go. Oh, yeah by the way, I decided to make chapters L---O---N---G---E---R (much longer) and add little things to show I'm changing who we're going to like ' ~*^*~' will appear when I go from Nightmare's story to our hero's (and vice-versa), and I'm also doing another story just if chapters take longer to post.
"So what your telling me is, you want me to work for this band WITHOUT any pay?" asked a confused Spawn. "Well… if that's the way you put it, yeah" answered Nightmare. "WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR!?" as he then proceeded by kicking him in the shin, and began to storm off, flames engulfing his body. They were in a local theatre Nightmare had overrun to do his band tryouts. "When you're a fancy, selfish git like me, what's the point of money? Mweeeeeheeeeheeeheeheeeeheee" laughed Raphael as Spawn bumped shoulder to shoulder passing by, "Why what a spoiled…. AAAAHHH!" he then began to stop, drop, and roll as the 'bump' had accidentally caught him on fire.
Nightmare sighed as heavily breathed "Next now… COME ON I AV'NT GOT ALL DAY YA' KNOW!" as Cervantes stepped up. "Come with me to hell!" he loudly exclaimed. "No thanks… I'm good." Nightmare gave a weird look not understanding where, exactly, that came from. "Darkness is coming!", Cervantes then exploded. "Ok now your pissing me off, would you just say something that actually makes some sort of sense…" Cervantes then randomly yelled, "Your soul is mine!." Nightmare simply sighed "Next."
Astaroth then stepped up. "Do you have any special qualifications?" Nightmare questioned the giant. "Um…. I can play the drums kind of good…." Nightmares squared up, "Really?" Nightmare he asked then, "Let me see." Astaroth sat himself at the drum-set to the right of Nightmare. "Ok… here goes nothing…" As he rapidly began to play. He played a beat that began to shake the stage floor, it cracked in several places where flames leapt out and lesser demons (which were no more than 2½ feet tall) grabbed the edges and forced their way through, then bowing to Astaroth and continuously keeping the pattern while chanting "Burgers for 99 cents on Tuesdays… Mega-Milkshake Mondays are half off the normal price of fries…"
Nightmare simply put up his hand indicating to stop, as he stopped and the lesser demons stood up, and began to chatting to one another saying things like "That was friggin' awesome!" and "He can really play" and "Awe man, the chocolate melted in my pocket." Nightmare stared at them before turning back to Astaroth "Great, your in, but work on that riff." as Astaroth then nodded. "Ok, that leaves me with me on guitar, you on drums, and we need a bassist and another guitar….." Nightmare then pulled out a seat for Astaroth next to him "Ok now, next."
~*^*~
"Tell me why we're doing this again now, Kilik?" Maxi asked heavily, as they were in an Athens recording studio. "Well if Seigfried, Nightmare, whatever you want to call him, is getting members for his band, I think we should get a bassist and a keyboard player." Xianghua rolled her eyes and responded to Maxi "Because Heihachi told us to." Maxi then put his head on the table and sighed something that sounded familiar to a certain word sounding like 'duck'.
Mitsurugi then stepped up to the table "I have come from a land that hails from far away for this moment, and now I shall prove my talent!" he pulled out an acoustic guitar and began to tune it. Once done tuning he then made one excellent strum, and proceeded with a tune and began to sing with a strange western accent "My my Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry…"he happily chanted when suddenly "ENOUGH!" Kilik yelled clutching his ears, Xianghua had two cotton balls in hers, and Maxi was clearly gone, "sorry… your not exactly what we're, ahem, looking for."
"Fine, if that's the way your going to be" he scoffed back to his Japanese accent, "then you're a bunch of people, with, well, silly names, YES! THAT'S IT! FROM NOW ON, MY CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL THANK ME THEIR ANCESTOR OF GRACE AS YOU ARE NOW THE BUNCH OF PEOPLE WITH SILLY NAMES! HAHAHA, WHO WINS NOW LOSERS!?!?!?" as he stormed off laughing. Kilik simply looked confused with Xianghua as he then stated "Okay… that was really weird…"
A weird looking kid, 17 maybe, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and some strange green clothes stepped up, right before Maxi came out of the curtains "Is that weird Japanese guy done singing?", then sitting in his seat he looked at the Hylian, "What, is it Halloween already?." Kilik looked at the guy, and then laughed "Ooh snap Maxi, he got you good."
Maxi looked at him confused "Wha… he didn't say anything!" as Kilik then responded, "Umm… I'm pretty sure he did, what are you, deaf man?" Maxi looked at him and shook his head "Whatever, dude just play some cool bass for us."
Link (I'm sure you all guessed it correctly by now) pulled the Master Sword off his back. Oddly, he pushed the Triforce symbol on the hilt and it grew tuning keys out the handle and the metal wires came down, latching to the bottom, "Wow, how so, like, nifty!", Xianghua happily exclaimed "Umm… what did you say your name was again?" He looked at her and blinked. Xianghua raised an eyebrow when Kilik suddenly burst out "LINK! HIS NAME IS LINK! WHAT ARE YOU DEAF TOO!?" and she fell backwards.
~*^*~
"Great, your in" Nightmare said invitingly, but with deep purple circles under his eyes. Astaroth was asleep next to him, and Ivy was shaking his hand, being their second lead guitarist. The two had been there for at least twelve hours now, and the lesser demons were all around, some smoking, some sleeping, some drinking, some playing poker in the corner betting many different and disgusting. Everyone was ready to fall asleep, not including those little ones who already were asleep. Then, the walls rattled and the room darkened, as the door burst open with a gush of black wind.
A flaming sword came through the roof and was set straight down into the ground, like Excalibur ready to be pulled from the rock, and was grabbed by the blade. The figure was shrouded in darkness until the walls themselves became a burning lightshow. Nightmare grinned, Astaroth's face lit with joy, and Ivy eyes narrowed as her lips curled. The demons bowed whilst a few other lesser demons were unfortunate enough to be running around burning. Nightmare pleasantly stated "Why, I think we've found our bass."
Who could this bassist be? Is he the physical form of Soul Edge? Or some other evil being? And what about Link, is Kilik really the only one who can hear him, or are those two deaf?
Plus, word has it that Mitsurugi will also join the competition off of anger! Find out this and more next time on…
Soul Calibur 2: Battle of the Bands