Mr. Monday: Two chapters, two reviews, one good one bad. That's a pretty good start. Anyways, this chapter will have two songs, one by Oingo Boingo, and the other from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Chapter 3, Rehearsals:
"Hey Joshua, what do you think of that girl?" Kurohime asked the Composer.
She, Joshua, and Albatross were sitting at the Dead God's Pad, waiting for Ketsueki, Uzuki, Kariya, and the Players to show up. Hanekoma had made it clear that he wanted no part in any of this.
"Who?" Joshua replied, not really all that interested.
"The young one Rhyme isn't it?" She sounded a bit mischievous.
"Umm…I don't know, she's a nice kid." Joshua still maintained disinterest in the conversation.
"Well do you like her?" Kurohime and Albatross both had huge grins at this point.
"What do you mean by that? She's a little girl." Joshua started sounding defensive and a bit nervous.
"And how do you feel about little girls?" Kurohime kept questioning him.
Neku, Shiki, Rhyme, and Beat and all agreed to walk to meet the Composer and new Conductor together, and along the way they ran into Uzuki and Kariya, who were in the RG for some reason.
"What the hell? We have to sing?" Was Uzuki's immediate reaction when the soon-to-be Players informed the Reapers of what was going on.
"Sounds like a pain." Kariya shrugged.
When they got through the sewers they were surprised to see that Joshua had apparently already began singing.
"I love little girls they make me feel so good. I love little girls they make me feel so bad. When they're around they make me feel like I'm the only guy in town. I love little girls they make me feel so good."
The group of six couldn't really say anything, they weren't exactly sure how to respond. Shiki and Uzuki's jaw dropped, Rhyme looked incredibly confused, Neku and Kariya were both staring blankly at the singing Composer, and Beat looked extremely pissed off.
"They don't care if I'm a one-way mirror. They're not frightened by my cold exterior. They don't ask me questions. They don't want the story. They don't look for answers. They just want to hold me."
Beat had heard enough, he ran over the singing Composer and socked him, stopping the singing.
"Thank you so much!' Joshua sounded genuinely grateful to get punched, and even attempted to hug Beat.
"You better stay away from my little sister yo." Beat warned the Composer.
"Umm…Yeah…About that." A wave of embarrassment came over Joshua when he realized they had just walked in on him singing a song about pedophilia. "They made me do it!" He accused Albatross and Kurohime, who were laughing uncontrollably.
"Why didn't you just stop singing?" It sounded like Neku was making fun of Joshua, although it was a bit hard to tell because he maintained a montone.
"I can't. There's like a weird power in the air that makes you keep singing." Joshua explained, although it sounded completely stupid.
"Uh huh." Sarcasm was one of the few emotions that you could detect in Neku's voice.
"So we have to sing without thinking about it? What a pain in the ass." Kariya sighed.
"Correct!" A vaguely flamboyant voice shouted.
Ketsueki walked into the room, one hand holding a rolled-up paper and the other around the shoulder of a teenager with a striking resemblance to Neku. It looked like Ketsueki might have been wearing make-up.
"Hello, I'm the new Conductor and stage manager of Shibuya, Ketsueki Mikoto." Ketsueki introduced himself to Kariya.
Ketsueki offered his hand to the Reaper, but the latter didn't shake it, so Ketsueki turned his hand to Uzuki instead.
"And who is this beautiful lady?" Ketsueki smiled in an attempt to flirt with Uzuki.
"My name's Uzuki you creep." Uzuki also refused to shake Ketsueki's hand.
"Who are those two?" Kariya pointed to Albatross and Sasaki, who were once again posing for some odd reason.
"We're Albatross and Kurohime Sasaki." They spoke in unison, which was sort of strange.
"What kind of stupid bitch of a mom names their kid Albatross?" Uzuki scoffed, which obviously upset the Reaper siblings.
"Wait a minute, Sasaki?" Shiki had the feeling that she had seen Albatross and Kurohime before, and now she knew why. "You're models for that one clothing brand." She sound a little excited.
"Darkstar." They said in unison again, although both sounded fairly annoyed that Shiki didn't remember the clothing brand.
Meanwhile, Neku had been glaring at the new boy, while the latter seemed amused by this.
"Yo Phones, that guy looks like you." Beat whispered, although from the tone of his voice it was obvious that he thought that this was a big secret.
"That's because he's my-"
"Cousin." Neku was unable to finish his sentence because his 'cousin' interrupted him.
"I guess you could say that." Neku muttered bitterly.
"Oh how rude of me, I haven't introduced the Game Master to you. This is Masaru Sakuraba." Ketsueki announced.
Instead of offering his hand like Ketsueki Masaru just sort of waved to everyone, except Shiki.
"Hello ma'am." He did offer his hand to her, which she took. Instead of shaking it he kissed her hand. "What's your name then?" He asked.
"My name's Shiki." She said, she blushed a little.
"Are all of the Reapers perverts?" Neku asked, annoyed by Masaru.
"Well, actually Neku there are worse things than treating women nicely." Masaru said. "Like grand theft auto, or killing people." He suggested.
"Masaru don't you have somewhere to be?" Joshua had been silently watching the conversation, he ahd already met all of the Reapers, including Neku's 'cousin.'
"Right you are sir." Masaru walked away from the group and out of the room.
"So, now that you're all here, we need to practice your singing." Ketsueki said.
"Absolutely not." Kariya sounded similar to Neku.
"Don't worry, you two don't actually matter in this Game. Albatross and Kurohime will be replacing you." Ketsueki informed them.
"We're better than you." Albatross taunted them.
Uzuki didn't actually want to be a part of it, but being the smugness in Albatross' voice pissed her off.
"Now shoo." Ketsueki waved them out of the room like they were animals.
Kariya shrugged and left, and Uzuki begrudgingly followed.
"So what do they have to do?" Joshua said, sounding slightly nervous.
"Well you want this to be the best performance ever right?" Ketsueki asked.
"Yeah!" Joshua was clearly excited.
"Then those two are going to need the most work." Ketsueki pointed to Neku and Beat. "I can already tell they're going to hold us back."
"Alright Neku, start singing." Joshua ordered Neku.
"Can't Beat start first?" Neku groaned.
"No, you start Beat follows." Ketsueki snapped. "So Neku, how do you feel?"
Neku sighed, then suddenly started uncontrollably singing.
"The sword of Damocles is hanging over my head, and I've got a feeling someone's gonna be cutting the thread. Oh, wo is me, my life is a misery. Oh, can't you see that I'm at a start of a pretty big downer? " Joshua smirked at the singing and dancing Neku, who was obviously pretty embarrassed.
"I woke up this morning with a start when I fell out of bed. And left from my dreaming was a feeling of un-nameable dread. My high is low, I'm dressed with no place to. And all I know is that I'm at a start of a pretty big downer." Beat sang the next verse, which caused his little sister to start laughing.
"The sword of Damocles is hanging over my head. And I have a feeling that someone's gonna be cutting the thread. Oh, woe is me, my life is a misery. Oh, can't you see that I'm at a start of a pretty big downer?" Neku, without trying to, took over the third verse.
Now that the song was over both boys look equally confused and embarrassed.
"That was messed up yo." Beat commented to Neku.
"I wasn't able to control my body." Neku said angrily.
Ketsueki began clapping for the two boys, which they didn't seem to care for.
"Bravo! You two did better than I thought you would." He shouted, which was completely unnecessary because they were right next to him.
"It's alright brother, you didn't sound that terrible." Rhyme tried to cheer Beat up.
"Alright, so you four have to that, except seven times, and on stage, and in front of Angels." Joshua explained. "That shouldn't be too hard right?" He seemed to hear 'yes' despite the fact that that wasn't the answer he got from them.
"So how do we get to the UG? Is there like some type of portal or something?" It was obvious by the tone of her voice that she didn't want to die again.
"Ah yes, Kurohime will be taking care of that. Ketsueki explained.
Kurohime walked over to them, stared blankly at them for a few seconds, before pulling out a revolver and shooting all four of them.
"So tomorrow they'll be a part of the performance?" Joshua asked.
"Yes, Masaru will send them to stages that the siblings have been setting up all over town and they'll have to do something involving a song." Ketsueki explained.
"Why do we need the band if the music plays itself?" Joshua asked, remembering hat Ketsueki had told him about 777's band.
"On the final day, instead of fighting the Game Master they'll all perform a finale together, with the band." Ketsueki explained.
"Sounds great." Jopshua didn't realize how dumb that plan actually was.
Mr. Monday: So that was the first (mostly) complete song. Next chapters will have more.