Survival by M870

Proluge: One Hell Of A Day

September 27, 1998 10:50a.m

Dave Johnson sat at the edge of the stage looking upon the empty crowd space. The band he was in were going to do a concert with another band from eleven in the morning to eleven at night. They were going to perform after the other band who were called 'The Unreal'. Dave's band had a very unusal name: 'Something Else'. It was the bass player of the band's idea, Ben Saller. He had been in a record store last year when he overheard some people talking.

" I'm going to get Metallica's 'Until It Sleeps' record. Are you gonna get Slipknot's 'Wait And Bleed'?" The first man said.

" Nah, I'm getting something else." The second man said.

A hand touched Dave's shoulder and he looked up to see his best friend and 2nd guitar player Zak Moon. He had short black hair and had a black goatee and mustace. He wore cut - off knee length cargo pants, a black t - shirt that had Megadeath written on it and some Hi - Top shoes.

" We gotta go backstage. 'The Unreal' are gonna set up their equipment. " Zak said.

Dave got up and walked with Zak behind the stage, watching 'The Unreal' walk onto the stage with most of the equipment. Soon after going backstage, Zak and Dave went to their dressing room where Marty Grant was doing a couple of drum warm - ups. He wore blue jeans and a red sleevless shirt with cargo boots. He had semi - long brown hair with a spikey fringe. Ben Saller was tuning his brown bass guitar. He wore grey trousers and black nike tennis shoes leaving his upper body bare showing tattoos nearly all over his body. He had blonde hair going further than his shoulders. And as for Dave, he had brown curly hair going just past his shoulders and he wore a black t - shirt which said; You Would Love 'Something Else'. Over the t - shirt he wore a black jacket with some bagdes of numerous things from clubs to bands to people. He also wore blue jeans and tan coloured boots. He wore black fingerless gloves covering some bandages over his hands from an accident a few days ago.

Something Else were hanging out one night with Marty's girlfriend Julie, Ben's brother Geogre, The band's manager Andrew, Zak Moon's sister Molly and his brother Ryan and Dave's girlfriend Tracy, his 3 brothers Jason, John and Danny and his 4 sisters Maria, Lisa, Claire and Kerrie. Then, a man sneaked into the house and took the band's instruments and equipment. Then the whole group chased after the man leading to a mansion. The guards at the front door's didn't let them in and after trying to negoscaite with them, the man who stole the equipment said a racist comment to Andrew who angered both Andrew and Dave. Dave hated racisim. They all fought through the guards until the night ended with the robber hiding in his car and Dave punching through the windows busting his hands open. They had the robber arrested and they got their equipment back.

Dave Johnson walked over to his blue guitar and started to do a few warm - up tunes and did a few vocal practises. He did the guitar and was the vocalist along with Zak Moon who also played guitar and was the vocalist. Ben Saller played bass guitar and Marty Grant played the drums. Zak then walked over to his black guitar with gray flames and started to play a few warm - up tunes and some vocals.

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Drew Foxx plugged the microphone into the large amplifier and put the microphone on the stand. He was the lead singer of the band 'The Unreal'. He had dyed his hair purple and it went past his shoulders. Drew wore black jeans and a blue dress beater with dark blue boots. Jason Johnson was the lead guitarist and was the brother of Dave Johnson. His brown hair covered his eyes and was long everywhere. People always said that it looked like a brown bush. (A/N: The hair is very simaler to the hair of the lead singer of a band called Coheed And Cambria.) He had a pointy goatee and wore red jeans and a green/blue hoody. Under, he wore a short sleeved dress beater. The shoes he wore were grey cowboy boots. The other guitar player was Chris Jameson. He had short spiked up black hair, brown sneakers, blue pants and a black vest. The bass player was Johnny Blunt. He had a bald head and black sunglasses, acommponied with piercings on his nose, ears and eyebrows. He had a mint green t - shirt, black cargo shorts and black and white vans shoes. The drummer was Pete. He had dyed red hair that was up to his shoulders. He wore black drumming gloves, a sleevless brown hoody, dark blue jeans and black Reebok sneakers. James 'Dynamite' Smith was their keyboard player and sampler. He was maybe the crazyiest member of the band because whenever there was a heavy guitar solo going and the crowd were jumping up and down, he would climb up the metal pilers with no safety gear. When he reached the top, he would jump into the crowd. He had semi - long blonde hair, hi - top shoes, white baggy trousers and a blue t - shirt. And the last member of the band was Jennifer Morrison. Different from the other bands, this one had two bass guitars. Jennifer played one of them. She had black hair flowing past her shoulders, black high heeled boots, black baggy pants and a long sleeved black top.

Soon after the band set up their equipment, hundreds maybe thousands of people rushed in through the left and right entrances screaming and pointing at 'The Unreal'. Some of the fans tried to jump over the railing and run towards the edge of the stage but only to be held back by the secruity guards. Only a few minutes later the crowd space was filled and people were cheering The Unreal.

" Now, for this first song, I want see every fucking person in this crowd, jumping up and fucking down because this song is called 'Drown'. " After Drew had finished speaking the crowd started screaming and did as he said. It started with Jason and Chris sliding their guitar picks up their guitars and right down. Then the other instruments came in. Drew grabbed a bottle of water near his feet and drank some keeping it in his mouth. The instruments stopped soon after, and Drew gurguled the water in his mouth and James played a sample of some drowning noises to go with the gurgling as Drew gurgled into the microphone and the instruments began again. Drew spat the water into the crowd.

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Something Else watched The Unreal play from the television in their dressing room. It looked like they had already owned the show.

" Damn. Looks like all that practise paid off for them. " Marty said.

" The crowd are nearly taking down the security!" Dave said. And they sure were. The crowd were trying to push past security but because security knew this might happen they put railings up in front of the crowd about five feet away from the stage. For the next few hours, Something Else were watching The Unreal peform until it was their turn to perform.

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James managed to climb over the security railing without being sucked into the crowd. His shirt had a huge tear in the back from the crowd.

" I'm not doing that again..." James muttered. He rose back to his feet to see all of the band jumping into the crowd.

" On second thought..." James happily said and dived back into the crowd.

Drew must have loved it. He always stage dived. Drew was getting closer to the entrance.

" Oh shit, I'm going to far. I'll probably be carried down the street soon. " The 23 year old singer thought.

" Take me back! " Drew shouted into crowd who did start to take him back. By the time he got back, The Unreal were tapping everybody's hands and heading into a backstage door that was a longer trip to the dressing rooms. Drew dropped down and starting tapping everybody's hands and moving quickly to catch up with his band. Before heading through the door, he winked at a blonde haired girl and went past Jason who was signaling to a girl with black hair to call him before he ran through the doorway.

" Raccoon City, is the greatest and craziest place ever! " James yelled.

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Zak, Marty, Ben and Dave stood out the doorway to the stage, waiting for the staff to carry The Unreal's instruments and equipment backstage. A man with sandy blonde hair took the final piece of equipment backstage which was Jennifer's bass guitar. Marty nudged Zak to move onto stage but first Zak took a deep breath and peeked his head around.

" Holy Shit! " Zak loudly whispered and stepped back.

" What? " Dave shouted over the roaring of the crowd who continued to scream Something Else.

" There's about half the city here! " Zak replied also shouting.

" Well fucking go! " Marty, Ben and Dave shouted happily at the same time. Zak took one more breath and stepped on the stage.

The crowd roared hard enough to bring the stage down. Dave followed Ben who follwed Zak while Marty went to his already set drum kit. Ben went to the far left, Zak was at the far right and Dave was in the middle.

Boy was this going to be a show to remember.

Authors Note: The upcoming chapters will be more action packed, gory, a big use of strong laungauge and a lot longer.