I mean fireworks in the literal, and non-literal form of the word.

You/staring at me blankly/

You'll see. I do not own One Step Closer, it is owned by the more awesome than Gosmack, Linkin Park. Who I also do not own. /sniff/ I don't get to own anything.

Guide

Singing

Chapter 4

Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, Rogue, and Dante stood behind stage pavilion, waiting. Risty came running up to them in a black skirt that brushed against the ground and a white shirt with a long right sleeve and no left sleeve. A blue-green claw could be seen reaching over her shoulder and a blue-green neck reached over her shoulder and ended in a dragon's head in the middle of her chest. No one was sure why they hadn't noticed it before.

"Alright monkey girl, climb up there and let down the ladder." Rogue ordered.

"Who are you calling a monkey, and since when do you give me orders?"

"Just let us up, Ris." Dante moaned.

Risty jumped up and grabbed the roof of the pavilion and pulled herself up. As she pulled, her skirt pulled up revealing black, high heeled, pointy-toed boots and black cargo pants. When she reached the top she lowered a rope ladder.

The group climbed up and joined the blond man sitting on the roof.

"Hey, bro." Dante muttered.

"Hello," he said pleasantly, "still wearing black I see."

"You know we're so different it is sickening."

"Yes, that is true. But are you sick because we're different, or because I'm the kind of person you hate?"

Dante ignored the question. "I mean, how come we're so different?"

"Maybe because since you became a vampire you've changed. You've changed a lot."

"Uh, Sebastian," Risty interrupted, "this is Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei."

"Yeah, well when you became a vampire, you didn't change." Dante countered, ignoring Risty and the others.

"You're right, I didn't. I didn't make myself become some Hollywood vampire like you did." Sebastian snapped, his voice a growl.

"I would've been like this even if none of this had happened!" Dante yelled.

"You're fooling yourself. You tried to become what you thought we were supposed to be."

"You don't know what I was like before and you don't what I'm like now!" Sebastian stood and glared at his younger brother. "Why do you think I hid in my room all the time? Why do you think I took my school bag with me everywhere I went? I hid in my room and listened to metal and looked at books about vampires and read stuff Mom and Dad called 'dark'. When I went out I took a change of clothes because Mom and Dad wouldn't let me out of the house wearing black! I didn't change, I was just allowed to do what I wanted!"

Sebastian looked away from his brother and noticed the others. "Well, you must be the Spirit Detectives. Delightful meeting you at last. I'm sorry we won't get a chance to talk, you see, I must be going." With that he climbed down the ladder and walked away.

"Well, the fireworks'll be starting soon." Rogue announced cheerily. "Let's get settled awhile."

"I think they already started." Risty muttered to her.

Everyone tried to forget what had happened and sat down on the roof to watch the fireworks. During the fireworks Risty's pants began to sing:

Everything you say to me,

Puts me one step closer to the edge,

And I'm about to break!

I need a little room to breathe.

'Cause I'm one step closer to edge and I'm about to...

"Dime (dee-ma long a not 'dime')... Uh-huh ... Really? ... Alright! ... We'll be there tomorrow. We're on in ten minutes ... Bye ..." Risty hung up the phone.

When the fireworks were over the group climbed down the ladder and stood in a small group. Risty stood next to Rogue and hugged her yelling:

"We're in! We're in!"

Rogue pushed away from her. "We're in?"

"Yes! Maya just called and said we got in! We made it!"

Both girls screamed and began jumping around in circles hugging each other. Dante pulled them apart and stared at Risty.

"We really made it?" he asked.

"Yes!"

He hugged both of them and they stood in a circle laughing and yelling.

"Is anyone else slightly confused?" Kuwabara asked.

"Hn. For once you aren't the only one confused." Hiei answered.

Kurama's face lit up. "What do you mean 'We're in'?"

"I mean," Risty answered, "We went, we auditioned, and we kicked some major ass!" She checked her watch. "And speaking of ass kicking. We have to go play."

"We are gonna rock their socks!" Rogue yelled, skipping towards the stage.

"And we are gonna shake their shoes." Dante added.

"We're gonna what?"

"I'm a Latin student, they didn't use the word 'rock' like we use it, and they didn't have socks. So you have to improvise."

"So we aren't really going to shake peopleses shoes?"

"No!"

She snapped her fingers. "Damn it!"

Hiei shook his head. "How do you put up with them?"

"I don't, I just put up with Risty and Rogue."

Hiei sweatdropped.