Disclaimer: I don't own, don't sue, and yea…

Leo: Well, I'm officially pissed…

Molokai: I'm sure the listeners aren't really interested but go on…

Leo: Well my MS Word is corrupted so it's been a while since I've actually been able to get into Word and update my fanfic… not to mention that I can't get a guy and my marks are slipping, such as a 33 in Maths which I normally get 70 in… -sighs- well this proves that my life sucks…

Molokai: Not necessarily -pashes Leo- How's that?

Leo: Better, but kinda hollow, because I'm still looking for an actual guy… but alas it never happens… anyways, onto the fic!

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WARNING: This warning has come and gone every chapter, you get the idea by now, and there still is a bit of drug usage, language and the possibility of violence… I'm writing the warning before the rest of the fic though, that's why…

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Chapter 6 - The beginning of the revolution...

The days were closing in on the band. Their first gigs were nothing spectacular as they were still new to the performing ideology, so they sounded like the recording, with no real emotion or excitement behind them. But the more they played, the more the band learnt to co-ordinate their actions and the more they began to breathe life into their performances. Hence the way their touring was structured, they left the big performances last, giving the band plenty of time to understand how they want to play it and what they want to play it.

The band, now known as Red Nocturne, since Cloud and the producers opted for a lighter name than Dark Souls, was on their way to stardom, but at the present time they were just a local act supporting one of the major indie rock bands in the country, The Heartless.

At the moment, Sora was in the dressing room getting his stage make-up on, which featured black eye liner as well as a delicate black design under both of his eyes, done with a fine brush and black face paint. He was also getting his bottom lip done with a light application of black lipstick, though it was only done in a small slit in the middle of the rosy skin.

Once his make-up was applied, Sora stood up out off the chair, which he was in for his 'beautification' as Yuffie had put it, grabbed his stage clothes and went into the bathroom of the small room, away from the make-up artist and changed into his on stage attire. This consisted of his black torn jeans, his ripped Mötorhead shirt with the logo at the front and the slogan "Everything löuder than everything else" on the back written in a white stylish font. Finally, to top it all off, Sora placed his sacred silver crown necklace and his neck and his leather bracelet onto his right wrist.

Sora looked into the mirror, after being satisfied how he looked he grabbed his leather jacket, thanked the stylist and left the room in search of his other band members who were in their tour bus, outside of the gig area. He slowly made his way there, but took his time as he soaked in the atmosphere that hung in the air. It was the sounds of the roadies testing and checking of the band's instruments, the stage crew testing and changing the lights and effect machines, and the murmur of the crowd as they began to gather at the front of the stage, with more approaching the stage the closer to performance time.

Sora made it to the bus and saw Leon at the front of the bus with Yuffie. The short black haired girl was applying Leon's make-up to the guitarist as the rest of the band was busy in their own personal assignments. Cloud was busy talking on his phone to his girlfriend, who was unable to get to the gig for the simple reason that she disliked being in rock crowds, as mosh pits were likely to break out at random, which was known as the most dirtiest, sweatiest, and revolting place known on the face of the Earth, but it still doesn't stop many rock fans for competing for ultimate fan appreciation in a pit of jumping crazed lunatics, with the mass body heat making the temperature of the grounds double at least. But Aerith said that her mother was feeling sick, even though Cloud spoke to her mother only a day ago.

Tidus on the other hand was busy with papers of all sorts, lined, plain and coloured, surrounding the bassist, all of which had designs for Tidus' signature bass that he had be working on for years now. He was thinking that now that their dream was beginning to get realised, he would create the perfect design and shape for his bass, making it unique and memorial. But then again, that was if the band could get huge enough for the band to do that, and Tidus was determined to keep the band alive, even if the chips were down for them.

Sora's attention turned back to Yuffie as she delicately and slowly applied all of the make-up and application, as well as a few hair products by the looks of what Sora could see, considering that Yuffie was blocking her masterpiece until it was finished. It wasn't for a few minutes until she did decide to move away, but that was after she showed Leon her work through a small mirror that she held in front of her.

Once the drummer moved away Sora looked at the new Leon, which consisted of thick black eye liner and dark eye shadow, further darkening the colour of Leon's eyes and his look, if possible. A unique combination of red and black lipstick was used on the guitarist's mouth creating a well structured plan, using the band's tradition colours of red and black, decided on with the name Red Nocturne. Along with the application, Leon's hair seemed to glisten in the light, compliments to the scattered amounts of glitter used in his hair, along with the after sheen from some of the hair products. Besides that, the hair colour also received a treatment as the guitarist's hair changed from his tradition brown hair, to blood red at the crown of his head with the colour, literally, fading to black the further down the hair went.

"Be honest, It looks like shit doesn't it?" Leon asked, raising his eyebrows at Sora with his new look, and also by the way the singer just looked at Leon.

"Don't be like that Leon, it's prefect isn't it Sora?" Yuffie asked, though it sounded like more of a statement then a question to Sora, making him uncomfortable about what he wanted to say, until he had a perfect idea on what to do in this situation.

"Well I will say something." Sora said, leaning in closer to Leon's ear and began whispering, "But be careful, you may never know who you might end up with if you go out looking like that sexy."

With that statement, Sora's tongue escaped it's confinements of his mouth and lightly flicked the inside of Leon's ear. In shock response Leon gasped and fell backwards on his chair as he tried to grab Sora in an attempt to regain his balance, only to have the lighter member pulled down on top of him. Yuffie started to giggle at the event, loving Sora's response and Leon's reaction, thinking it very amusing at the time. All the time Cloud decided to ignore the event and continued talking to his girlfriend, while Tidus took a glance over his drawings and gave a small chuckle in response to the event. To make matters worse, Sora was on top of Leon, straddling his hips, while Leon was still shocked at the events that have taken place to notice that he was in that position, until Sora spoke up again.

"What did I tell you Leon? Now look at you, you've found on the bottom of the relationship, I thought you were always the dominant? Something you're not telling me?" Sora asked in faint shock as he couldn't help but laugh at Leon's reaction to that, which was throwing Sora off of him and hiding his face from the rest of the band, with Yuffie in stitches at the event, Cloud holding his hand over the receiver as he tried to stop his laughing, and Tidus holding his head in his hands laughing as well to the situation.

"Anyways, we on in five alright, so let's get going." Sora said looking at his watch and walked out of the bus, soon to be followed by the rest of the band members, Leon, Yuffie, Cloud and Tidus in that order. They walked in a single file for the length of the way to the front stage where they waited in the wings, soaking up the atmosphere of the crowd that has built up for the last few hours since the gates opened allowing the public to enter. Sora took a breath and spoke.

"Alright, let's give them hell."

The reaction was unexpected as the crowd cheered the band on as they approached their equipment, still cheering as they all got into position, never dulling until Sora took his position behind the microphone, his hands covering it meaning that their act was about to begin. Sora screamed the count and the band started with their main song, "Living a Lie" creating a roar in the crowd with a small mosh pit breaking out at the very front of the stage near where the band was performing, so right near the speakers so the sounds were being drilled into their heads, with the bass pounding straight to their hearts, driving them on even more than usual.

Occasionally between the verses, Sora would unhook the microphone and move to the very front of the stage, encouraging the crowd to get involved with the sound, so when they entered the bridge, Sora sang the line, with the crowd echoing it in response. Leon and Cloud looked at each other and then at Sora, who had the crowd at the palm of his hands, so they decided to out do him, with Cloud and Leon going back to back, and only stopping when Leon broke into the solo, so he approached the stage and leapt onto the ground speakers, receiving, what would have been a deafening roar, if it weren't for the sheer volume that those speakers amplified.

Ironically, the band were trying to outdo each other, but they worked together, coordinating their very movements with the song, ensuring that they didn't seem to choreographed in their movements, nor did they seem too independent to each other. Their movements brought the excitement of the crowd into their performance and the sheer adrenaline of the atmosphere as well.

As the performance continued, the crowd seemed to get even more involved with the band and they seemed to increasingly enjoy the band's playing. But one of the highlights that many of the fellow headbangers would agree would be when the band performed their version of a song.

Sora went over near the wings and picked up a black guitar from a stand which was placed there for the band by the roadies. The black guitar was Sora's first ever guitar that he owned, so he cherished it, and was especially useful for the song that they were about to play. The crowd quietened a little as Sora slung the guitar over his shoulder and approached the microphone again. Again he said the count and Cloud and Leon started the backing guitaring for the song as Sora waited for a good half a minute before he slammed his right fist down, opening the lead guitar for the song, as he began to sing a few seconds later.

(AN: I don't own this song, which is 'Hate To Say I Told You So' by The Hives)

Do what I want cause I can and if I don't because I wanna

Be ignored by the stiff and the bored because I'm gonna

Spit and retrieve cause I give and receive because I wanna

Gonna get through your head what the mystery man said because I'm gonna

Here Sora stopped playing guitar for the start of the verse

Hate to say I told you so (ALRIGHT!)

Then he stomped on a pedal creating a harsh distortion sound for his guitar and started playing harder for the sound to be effective.

I do believe I told you so…

Now there was no sound for this next line, highlighting Sora's voice, much like the original that they took it from.

Now it's all out and you know…

Cause I wanted to

They guitaring returned to normal as they went back to verse which played exactly as the first verse, only with a change of the lyrics. Though when they reached the end of each line, Sora broke his guitaring matching the broken singing of the song

Turn my back on the rot that's been planning the plot - because I'm gonna.
No need for me to wait - because I wanna.
No need two, three and too late - because I'm gonna.

Now again the chorus playing started as Sora stopped like he did at the start of the last chorus exactly like he did last time, with one difference at the end of the chorus.

Hate to say I told you so (ALRIGHT!)

I do believe I told you so………

After Sora's voice trailed off into the distance, everyone froze along with the music except for Tidus and his bass, being the only sound that could be heard from the band. It was very clever in how it was done, as Cloud and Leon was frozen just as they finished their last chord, with Sora's body frozen in a stance that showed that he was about to play harder than anything else that song. Even Yuffie was frozen from playing the drums.

Sora only moved his head as he looked around the audience and at Tidus who was playing the bass backing for the verse for which was about to be sung by the frozen Sora.

Do what I please gonna spread the disease because I wanna

Gonna call all the shots for the "No"s and the "Not"s because I wanna

YEAH!

As soon as Sora started yelling their air, everyone unfroze from their position and broke into the final chorus, which consisted of the same guitaring and backing, with Sora's verse speeding up in a furious pace.

Ask me once I'll answer twice cause what I know I'll tell because I wanna.
Sound device and lots of ice I'll spell my name out loud because I wanna

OH YEAH!

At that point Sora kicked down the microphone stand and he broke out into the outro solo for the song, consisting of very fast playing on the near end of the neck on the highest string and he moved to the very front of the stage, creating a roar of the crowd as he dropped the guitar and leapt into the crowd, which caught him and crowd surfed him at the front of the stage and when the song ended, they let him back to the stage, where he took a bow and walked off stage with the rest of the band as it was their final song, and boy did it leave a lasting impression. Even the main performance, The Heartless, who were watching from the opposite wing from where Red Nocturne left the stage on, were impressed with the bands performance.

They agreed that they had the means to be a top performing band. But they shouldn't let all that go to their head, they still have to complete this tour first and still make it huge overseas for them to be considered anything near a top performing band. But they also had the power to bring upon their own destruction, if they weren't careful, as they were a time bomb ready to go off when their time was done.

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Leo: Well that was that chapter over and done with, please review if you want to see the next chapter

Molokai: -holds up a sign saying 'Will work for reviews'- We're desperate for reviews, because we're kinda jealous of a close friend for ours, who's got over 50 reviews for the same number of chapters...

Leo: Well we'll see ya next chapter, until then, enjoy yourself!