Tsubasa Rock Band Chapter 9

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Sakura woke up first on that dreary day. Usually, Kurogane would be the first to wake up. However, Sakura woke up at 6:00Am. She took a look at her costume folded on a chair. Mokona was sleeping next to her, mumbling something about Clow Reed trying to eat Kero and Mokona.

She smiled gently at Mokona and pet his forehead. Then, she looked out her window and sighed.

"Today's the day, huh?"

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After a small breakfast, the group was all ready to go. Sakura had her guitar, her pick, and her microphone. Syaoran had his bass and a bag with the sheet music and entry forms. Fye and Kurogane had their drum set and fold-up electric piano set.

"How am I going to get this thing to the contest?" Fye asked, pointing to the drum.

"Mokona can store things in her mouth!" Mokona opened its mouth and sucked in all the instruments everyone would need.

"Did everyone practice their songs that they are going to sing for the preliminaries?" Syaoran asked.

"Yeah," the other three members said in synchronicity. For the preliminary, everyone had to sing one song. They each had to score 5 out of ten or higher. The group didn't quite get the reasoning for the auditions, but they chose songs anyway. Sakura chose the piano version of Amrita, Syaoran chose Kizuna, Fay chose Nothing I Won't Give, and Kurogane chose Zankou.

"Okay then, we should get going now," Syaoran led the others to the building in which the contest was being held.

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"Seven!" The judge shouted after Kurogane sung his preliminary song. "What!? That was at least worth a nine!" Kurogane yelled.

The judge waved him off and called up the last one, Sakura.

"Ten! Fabulous, Little Lady! Are you the singer?" the judge clapped his hands after Sakura was done singing. "Yes I am, thank you very much," Sakura smiled and nodded.

Syaoran sighed in relief. Everyone had gotten higher than a five. Syaoran got an eight, just like Fay.

"When does the contest start?" Sakura asked. "It starts tonight at 8:00 PM. We go on at 9:45 PM, so it's going to be a pretty long night," Syaoran explained.

"What do we do until then? The house is pretty far away from here, so we can't walk back. That would mean several trips in one day," Fay said.

"I don't know, we could walk around?" Syaoran suggested. "Mokona wants to find some place to eat!" Mokona yelled. Everyone smiled at Mokona. "I guess. It's 12:00, and lunchtime," Syaoran said.

So, with that, everyone headed to a different café within the shopping district of the city.

"Can Mokona have coffee and a slice of strawberry shortcake?" Mokona asked the waitress who took their order. "Umm, excuse me for asking, but what are you?" the waitress asked. "Mokona is Mokona!" Mokona lifted its paws in the air.

"O-okay then. Decaf or regular?" "Give it decaf," Kurogane answered before Mokona could answer. "Okay then, I'll have your orders in five minutes," the waitress walked away.

"Kuro-wan is so mean! Mokona wanted to try real coffee!" Mokona whined.

Syaoran looked to his side and saw that Sakura was preoccupied with something on her mind.

"Hime, are you nervous?" Syaoran asked. She looked at him cautiously for a second, but closed her eyes. "I guess."

"Mokona's been to concerts with Yuko before!!! There were punk rockers dressed like we were! Except, there music wasn't as great as they dressed. And when Mokona asked Yuko why they weren't so good on stage, but better on CD, Yuko told Mokona that they were nervous."

"Wow Porkbun, that was very motivating," Kurogane put his hand on Mokona. "Mokona is trying to say that we should try and overcome our fear by having confidence that we should win! Because I have a feeling that we will win!" Mokona said.

"Thanks, Mokona," Sakura smiled at the rabbit-like creature. "Mokona's right, we can't get nervous. The consequences will be bad if we don't win and my clone gets hold of the feather," Syaoran said.

"Yeah," Kurogane said. "Okay," Fay and Mokona said. After a pause and a deep breath, Sakura said, "Yes!"

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The group spent the rest of their day wandering around the stores. Along the way, they saw some familiar faces, such as Chun 'Nyan, Yuzuriha, Souseki, and Suzuran. The group found out that they as well were entering the contest too.

It was getting close to 7:30 PM when they had to start heading back to the concert hall.

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"Okay, everyone, let's give it one more practice!" Syaoran instructed the group. "Mokona, can you give me my drum, please?" asked Fay. The rest of the group stored their instruments in the utility closets. But, Fay's drum set was too big to fit, so Mokona had to carry it in its mouth. Kurogane was trying to figure out how to unfold his keyboard.

"1, 2, 3-" right as they were about to start, they heard a gasp.

Sakura covered her mouth as her eyes widened. "Syao-syao," she took a deep breath, "Syaoran-kun?!"

There standing there was Syaoran's clone, with Fay's eye. Standing next to him were Seishiro with drums and Dr. Kyle with a guitar. C!Syaoran had a bass.

C!Syaoran turned his head and stared at Sakura. He walked over to her and grabbed her wrists. "I will get your feathers back! Without fail!"

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Another miserable excuse for a chapter! Oh well, C!Syaoran arrived. I don't know why, but I suddenly get inspirations for writing when I read horror stories, hear my English teacher talking about the Mafia, playing piano or guitar, or eating ice cream. In this case, the ice cream did the trick.

Preview:

Sakura took a big sigh and opened her eyes to see the crowd cheering. She smiled and looked over to C!Syaoran's band. He was wearing no expression.

"Okay, everyone, that was Synchonicity from the band Tsubasa! Next, we a band called Feather, and they will be playing Skid Mark (Kotani Kinya)!" the announcer called.