Tales of Advertisement: Chapter 2
Disclaimer: We (SoC and I) do NOT own Tales of Symphonia or any of the ads mentioned in this fic. But we do own our…our…our something-I-can't-think-of-right-now! Right?
Cherry-sama: Hi! And welcome back to Tales of Advertisement!
SoC (Sister-of-Cherry-sama, AKA: SoCs): We'd like to thank all of you that reviewed last chapter.
Cherry-sama: This time our topic is the iPod ad!
Yggdrasill: Read this pathetic story made by these inferior beings.
SoC(s): (taps foot) Excuse me?
Yggdrasill: You're excused.
Cherry-sama: Yggy-sama meant to say 'please read this fic!' And please do!
It was an average day on the studio. Lloyd and the rest of the ToS cast were in the room where they had all been thrown into last chapter. Kratos, Yuan and Mithos/Yggdrasill were arguing. Everyone else was silent so you could hear the conversation really well.
"But why didn't you do what you were told?" Yuan yelled at Kratos, remembering how mad the authoress was after the last advertisement.
"You would've laughed at me so much, I would've begged for death." Kratos pointed out.
"He's got a point…" Yggdrasill told Yuan while looking at Yuan, pointing at Kratos.
"But now, because of him, we now all have to do an ad where it embarrasses all of us!" Yuan exclaimed.
"Just by idle curiosity, what is the ad?" Raine asked; first to break the silence for the rest of the ToS cast.
"I'm not sure, but Botta will laugh at me for weeks!" Yuan told Raine while imagining a picture of chibi Botta laughing at chibi Yuan.
"It won't be that bad… I think…" Lloyd reassured Yuan.
"Ohhh…sure… I think…" Yuan muttered under his breath.
"Hiii!" Cherria exclaimed as she entered the room, in a better mood than last chapter (I think).
"What are we doing?" Colette asked.
"Sitting around and waiting for me to give the word." Cherria replied, but that's not what Colette meant.
"I think she meant which ad we are doing…" Regal pointed out.
"Ohhh… We are doing the iPod ad!" Cherria exclaimed, pulling out scripts for the ToS cast.
"THE IPOD AD!" everyone (but Kratos and Presea) yelled/gasped.
"What's the iPod ad?" Kratos asked, raising an eyebrow.
"That's a good question…" Presea stated.
"If Presea wants to know, I do too!" Genis exclaimed while blushing.
"An iPod is a musical device that people from earth use to listen to their favorite songs when they want to. They can be very expensive." Cherria explained as SoC entered the room.
"FASINATING! I must study and dissect one of these 'iPod s' at once!" Raine yelled in ruin mode (making everyone jump).
"So… What do we have to do for the ad?" Lloyd asked.
"Simple, all you have to do is go to make-up office and let them make you alllll black. Then, you go to wardrobe to see that you must wear an outfit, like your old one, also pure black. Put it on and come to the set, by the way, it's rather hot over there because we broke the air-conditioning this morning. Any questions?" Cherria asked.
Long silence.
"Could you repeat that please?" Colette asked.
"Maybe later…" Lloyd paused.
"I'll go first, we'd better go over one at a time or make-up people will go hysterical…" Sheena volunteered.
"I'll bet…" Zelos muttered.
"Okay Sheena, you go. All of you wait here until I come back to say the next person can come." SoC instructed.
"Whine." Noishe whined.
Everyone looked over to notice Noishe was in the corner. How they didn't notice him before, I have no clue.
"Huh? You want to be in the ad too?" Lloyd asked, understanding Noishe.
"Howl." Noishe confirmed.
"It'll be fine if Noishe joins, in fact, we could use some animal reference." Cherria told Noishe.
"In that case, maybe Corrine could be in as well?" Sheena asked.
"Sure! The more the merrier!" Cherria exclaimed.
"And more crowded…" Yggdrasill added.
Everyone was almost gone from the room where the ToS cast was kept. The only ones left were Mithos/Yggdrasill, Yuan, and Presea. Zelos had just left the room.
"I wonder what the others look like by now…" Yuan pondered, looking at the door to the room.
"Who knows? Or the bigger matter, who cares? We just have to worry about what we will look like!" Yggdrasill told Yuan.
"But still… What if they look better than we do?" Yuan wondered as he looked at the door longer.
"If they do, destroy them!" Yggdrasill exclaimed.
"But what about Cherria? What will she think?" Yuan shuddered thinking of what would happen if Yggdrasill used 'Judgement' on the ToS cast.
"Who cares? Destroy her too!" Yggdrasill exclaimed.
"But what about SoC? What will she—" Yuan started, but he was interrupted.
A loud scream rung through the studio.
"WHAT! I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD TO DYE OUR HAIR BLACK!" Zelos screamed, apparently petting his hair to protect it from the make-up artists.
Yggdrasill and Yuan became wide eyed. They had to have their hair dyed black? This wasn't in the contract! Wait…they didn't have a contract… Never mind!
"Our hair has to be dyed black?" Yuan muttered; eyes widened.
"Nooo… Not my hair!" Yggdrasill mumbled while petting his soft and well cared for hair.
"But I told Martel that I wouldn't dye my hair without her saying so!" Yuan complained.
"O.o You did…?" Yggdrasill muttered madly, clenching his teeth, ready to strangle Yuan.
"What will I do…?" Yuan muttered to himself.
"Okay, next please." SoC told the last of the ToS cast as she walked through the door.
"I prefer not to go now…" Presea told the men, speaking for the first time.
"You go." Yuan told Yggdrasill.
"No, you go!" Yggdrasill told Yuan.
"You!"
"No, you!"
"How about you settle this with 'rock, paper, scissors'?" SoC suggested, watching the two men.
"Fine!" Yuan told SoC, as he got ready.
"Rock…" Yggdrasill muttered.
"Paper…" Yuan muttered.
"SCISSORS!" they yelled together.
Yggdrasill had rock and Yuan had paper.
"Okay, let's go buster…" SoC told Yggdrasill, frozen in shame and disbelief.
"But…but…" Yggdrasill muttered.
"MOVE!" SoC ordered Yggdrasill, pointing to the door sternly.
When Yggdrasill didn't respond, SoC dragged him out of the room, making sure he couldn't get away.
When the whole ToS cast was on set (including Presea and Yuan), the camera person got back to the position. It was scorching hot on the set, and reacting to the laws of light and energy (science class has taught me too much), the ToS cast (who were completely black except for the whites of their eyes) were boiling compared to the others.
"Hot… So hot… So very hot…" Lloyd muttered as he lay on the floor and sprawled out like a bug about to die.
"Well, look on the bright side! At least we aren't too cold!" Colette exclaimed.
"Now… -pant, pant-… Put these on your belts…" Cherria instructed as she gave each of them a white iPod.
"What is we don't have belts?" Yuan asked, who was completely black (except for the eyes).
"Yuan! I told you to take off that cape! You can't wear it!" Cherria told Yuan.
"Why? I'm so used it wearing it!" Yuan complained.
"Look! Either you don't wear it, and live a happy life; or you do wear it and I rip it off your back and burn it in the fire!" Cherria listed the options.
"O.o" Yuan looked as he took off his cape.
"That's better."
"People in the ad were wearing roller skates…" SoC pointed out.
"There were?" Cherria asked.
"Yep…" SoC replied.
"Okay… Who should wear the skates…?" Cherria paused, looking at the ToS cast.
Cherria snapped her fingers.
"I got it!" Cherria exclaimed while pulling eight pairs of boots that could fit a dog and a small summon spirit. "Noishe and Corrine will wear them!"
"Howl." Noishe told Cherria.
"If Sheena wants me to, I'll wear them!" Corrine (black, eyes are usually closed so you can't see his eyes) exclaimed.
"Now, I all want you to sing to this song!" Cherria exclaimed as she played the iPod ad music (which I don't know the name of).
While they listened t the music, Cherria pulled out some eye-covering-things-you-put-on-while-you-are-asleep-that-I-don't-know-the-name-of. Cherria pushed the ToS cast onto the stage and put the eye-covering-things-you-put-on-while-you-are-asleep-that-I-don't-know-the-name-of on the ToS cast's eyes.
"This is a dress rehearsal! Dance like you mean it! And SING!" Cherria yelled to the ToS cast, who were now blind, Noishe and Corrine skating all over the place.
The music started.
"Dance!" Cherria commanded.
They all started to dance, in different ways because one couldn't look over to see how the other was dancing. Noishe and Corrine were slipping and sliding all over the place. Kratos was flying around in his black wings and kept on bonking his head the roof. Lloyd was dancing fine until Colette fell on top of him (thus creating a LloydxColette moment). Genis was casting magic with his black kendama until one of his spells hit Raine (the spell just happened to be 'Spread', a water spell…). Sheena was summoning Maxwell while concentrating very hard on Zelos (guess who's attacking Zelos?). Zelos was making perverted dance moves. Regal was making ballroom dancing moves. Yggdrasill was doing all sorts of dance moves that regular humans/half-elves couldn't do (like flying flips). Yuan was doing a dance that made him look like Elvis Presley (O.o). And Presea was just standing there…
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Cherria commanded. "Okay, that was great. Now, we need all the people to just go on at certain times! This is the real thing! Get off the set!"
The ToS cast tried to blindly find they're way to off stage.
"YOU CAN TAKE YOUR EYE-COVERING-THINGS-YOU-PUT-ON-WHILE-YOU-ARE-ASLEEP-THAT-I-DON'T-KNOW-THE-NAME-OF OFF!" Cherria yelled at the stupid ToS cast.
They got off set.
"Now, when I call Yg, Yu, L, C, G, Ra, S, Z, P, Re, or K; I want you to go on set." Cherria instructed.
"What do those stand for?" black Colette asked.
"Your names…" SoC told Colette.
"My voice will later be digitally edited out." Cherria explained.
"We still have the same take guy, so we can only do 3 shots." SoC explained.
"Are we going to get this started or not?" Kratos asked, coal black.
"Yep! Lights! Camera! Action!" Cherria yelled throughout the studio.
"iPod ad, Take: 1…" the random take guy called.
The iPod music started to play and the background started to flash different colours.
"Ra! G! Noishe!" Cherria called out.
Genis, and Raine came on set, pure black (eye-covering-things-you-put-on-while-you-are-asleep-that-I-don't-know-the-name-of on). They danced in a synchronized way (almost like they were using telepathy! Wait… they might have been…). They were doing perfect until pure black Noishe came on set, in roller skates, zooming across the camera, pushing Raine and Genis off stage and making a loud crashing sound off set.
"Cut!" Cherria called out as the music stopped abruptly.
"Maybe Noishe shouldn't wear roller skates…" Lloyd paused after watching this whole scene.
"That was perfect! We'll just edit out the crash part and it will look like it was suppost to be that way!" Cherria exclaimed.
"But—" Genis protested, still dizzy from what happened.
"Get READY! Raine! You can go the make-up artists to help get the black off, and bring Noishe with you!" Cherria commanded.
"Alright." Raine gasped for she was boiling.
Raine left.
"Lights! Cameraaaaaaaa…! Action!" Cherria exclaimed adding in lots of not needed suspense on 'camera'.
"iPod ad, continued, Take: 2." the random guy called.
The iPod music played again. The background became all flashy again.
"Yg! Yu! K!" Cherria called out.
Yggdrasill, Yuan, and Kratos flew (with black wings) on set, wearing iPod s. They had apparently planned out what they would do when they're time came, so they had a better performance than the last performers. Heck! Why am I describing them as if they worked in a circus or something! Anyways…
"Good… Good…" Cherria muttered as she watched with growing approval.
Kratos flew diagonally from the bottom right of the set, to the top left of the set, doing a few spins while he was at it. Yuan did the same only he went from bottom left to top right. Yggdrasill flew in from bottom center and did a glorious pose when he got to top center. Then they flew off the stage.
"P! Re!" Cherria called.
Presea walked on, carrying a large (black) axe. When she got to the center, she started swinging her axe really fast. So fast that it made the authoress dizzy! Well… that's not very hard…
Meanwhile… off set…
"Wow! Presea is good!" Colette exclaimed.
"I know!" Lloyd exclaimed.
"Isn't she cute?" Genis asked Lloyd.
Presea swings her axe while exiting. When off set, she can't stop! Presea, in short, crashed into Lloyd, Genis and Colette! Ouch… That would hurt (remember, Presea's swinging an axe!)…
On set…
A loud crash was heard off set.
"Hmmm… What was that…?" SoC paused, looking in that direction.
"Come on! We have to keep going! We're paid for this!" Cherria told SoC, for SoC was the camera-man.
"I know… I know…" SoC muttered under her breath.
"Re! Where are you?" Cherria called out.
"I think he's in the bathroom…" a random person told Cherria.
"Joy… Okay! Who cares about him! S! Z!" Cherria called out.
Sheena and Zelos entered the stage; apparently Sheena was mad at Zelos so she started to do an ancient Mizho dance and whispered just loud enough for someone off set could hear…
"Corrine!" Sheena whispered as her guardian spirit started to get ready to attack.
Corrine made his aim steady… His eyes (his eyes were closed enough so he didn't have to wear the eye-covering-things-you-put-on-while-you-are-asleep-that-I-don't-know-the-name-of) were sharp and steady. You could compare him to a bull at a bullfight, wearing roller skates. All of a sudden, he launched, soaring gracefully, yet secure, towards his victim.
Zelos didn't know what hit him. That is, until he noticed that he was somehow off stage, with a hamster thing on top of him that had three blue tails.
Sheena, on the other hand was dancing in a way that made her look gorgeous. She was doing great until the authoress yelled something.
"CUT! What happened to Zelos? And I didn't call Corrine out!" Cherria nagged.
"I dunno." Sheena lied.
"Whatever, this is our last take!" Cherria announced. "Make it look good!"
"iPod ad, continued, Take: 3…" the random guy called, saying his last sentence for the day.
The iPod music started to play once more. The background became flashy once again.
"C! L!" Cherria called.
Lloyd and Colette entered the set. They were the last to dance. Colette flew up (with black wings) onto Lloyd's shoulders. Lloyd grabbed onto her legs and tried to do a simple twirl.
The word 'tried' suggests they failed. They did.
At the 90 Degreeof the full 360 Degree, Colette started to wobble and made Lloyd fall backwards. Colette turned around to see if he was okay. When she looked down on him, she fell (from air?). When she landed (yes, on Lloyd), she accidentally kissed him. Yes I do mean the lips. Colette then blushed and turned away.
"Cut it! Print it all (with a bit of digital editing)! That was great!" Cherria yelled as she clapped her hands. "All of you get your black make-up off!"
Regal entered the room.
"What I'd miss?" Regal asked, as he rubbed his hands together.
Cherry-sama: Chapter 2!
Zelos: The black dye won't come out… T.T
Cherry-sama: What? So it's my fault?
Zelos: Yes... Well… No…
SoC: Make up your mind.
Yggdrasill: Review for this pathetic excuse for a story!
Cherry-sama: Yggy-sama meant 'please review'!