Chapter 9: HHO arrival, at last all the pieces are in place.
My band and I stood at the baggage claim waiting for the orchestra, being a semi popular band Omega Squad had drawn a crowd of people and I had snuck away and left the boys with signing all of the autographs until Cameron, aka Erik had drug me back to the group after a while people left us alone and we were able to return to waiting for Heights Orchestra. I was just about ready to fall asleep when I saw Mr. Cameron.
"About damn time." I muttered standing up. "Omega, their finally here." I said
"Oh good… oh god." Cameron said as he saw what appeared to be the WHOLE orchestra walk around the corner. Upon seeing me Mr. Cameron waved and I walked up grasping the offered hand.
"Mr. Cameron, could you possibly have taken any longer?" I asked
"Probably but I decided not to." We laughed and I scanned the crowd of people, looking over my 'family'.
"Hey Mack." Austin, one of the bass players, said walking up wrapping me in a hug. "Got ya." He said
"Wha-?"
"GROUP HUG!" He yelled and everyone rushed forward and wrapped Omega in a massive group hug, after we pulled apart I glared at Austin
"You son of a…!" I growled. Their flights conveyor belt light up and bags started rolling off it the orchestra proccedded to get their stuff and I carried on light conversation with different people. "Mr. Cameron, we have a rehearsal at 7:30 tommorow." I said
"Who is supposed to watch these guys?"
"Haku and my dad." I replied, he sighed
"You know that won't end well."
"It'll be fine. They could come watch the rehearsal if they wanted, isn't that the reason that you people came was for VSL?" I asked
"Ya, they will be coming to the rehearsal tomorrow that's right." I sighed
"It's at 7:30 remember that." I said "Omega, we need to be going, I'm hungry." I yelled and the rest of the Squad perked up and we all left. Once we got to the van I was renting Cameron looked over at me. "Ya, whats on your mind?"
"I was wondering, why have them go to both the rehearsal and the concert?"
"I want them to be able to see us in both a serious and non-serious scenario." I said, he grunted none commitingly. We got back to my dad's in record time. Once their we all ate and Omega went down stairs to try and make some symbilance of order out of the mess they had made of the downstairs. Let it be known that Dad was not pleased with this mess. After that I decided to spend some time with my Vocaloids as I hadn't been able to give them much one on one time since at rehearsal I was dealing with the group as a whole mostly.
"Call from: Austin Buckner."
"Damn it man. Hello?"
"Hey, I was wondering you have quite the following and your fans here in the orchestra were wondering if you, Omega, and your Vocaloids could play some stuff for us. Like a mini concert or something?"
"Yeah, something like that would be a nice break from all the strain of VSL's preparation I'll grab the gang and head into town see you guys in about an hour… wait where are you all staying?"
" We are in the Grand Hyatt staying under HHO." He said
"Alright, we'll be there." I said
"We'll try and make some room for you." I grunted and hung up.
"Hey you guys, that was Austin he asked me to bring everyone into town and play a little min concert for them."
"That sounds fun." Neru said, I was still getting used to her talking, everyone nodded in agreement and so Omega and the Vocaloids loaded into the van and my dad's car and drove to the Grand Hyatt Denver. Once we were there I walked up to the front desk
"Hello and welcome to the Grand Hyatt Denver."
"Hi, I'm looking for a group of my friends."
"And they are?"
"They're here under HHO." I said
"Ahh yes, the high school group." She said, I noted the slight venom in her voice
"Has my Orchestra been causing you problems already?" She nodded
"A few yes."
"I'll talk to them when I get up there." I said she gave me the room number and I signaled to Omega and we walked towards the elevator. It was a bit of a squeeze fitting 9 people and our instruments in the elevator at once. "13th floor here we come." I said as I punched the 13 and we went up. Once I got there we all head to the room 1307, one of the villa suites that apperantly served as the meeting area for the whole HHO. I knocked on the door, it was opened quickly and we went in, no one except Mr. Cameron, Austin, Sergio, and Jeffory were there however. "Where is everyone?"
"It's a surprise so once you guys are set up I'll go get everyone."
"Oh ok cool. Let's move Omega." I said and we quickly had everything arranged so we had a place to sit and play our instruments and a place for people to sit and watch. "Alright Austin, we are good to go." I said He nodded and walked out, as he did he made a symbol with hand and Sergio turned and walked into a different room and came back with a bass and a cello.
"Austin and Jesus want to play with you guys." I nodded and Austin came back with the rest of HHO following him.
"Hey Mack."
"Hey Chandler, good to see ya. How's Skyrim been?"
"Amazing."
"Same. Alright if everyone is here I would like to welcome you to my stress relief concert. I've been working non-stop with everyone to get Vocaloid Summer Live up and running and haven't had much time too do anything fun so Austin recommended that I come here and play for ya'll so I think I will. Omega, lets start this off like we normally do."
"Yes sir." Omega chorused.
Weight of the World
Baby cry's in his mothers arm's
Soldier hides a tear
A blind man sees everything he hears
Rich man trys to hold to whatever he has left
Poor man searches where to lay his head.
(Refrain)
I've got the weight of the world cryin on my shoulder. I used to sit around and wonder, how I got the weight of the world taking me over. Then you pull me out from under.
News man says times are bad world is gonna end
Worry plays a desperate game deep inside my head
I couldn't pay my bills last month running low on pride, when this life lays a chill on me your love warms me inside. (Refrain)
I took a deep breath and nodded to Omega and we launched right into the next piece, Burn it to the Ground. (AN: Weight of the World isn't on utube so I put its lyrics in). After that one we stopped and I got a drink of water and turned the mic over to Miku whom happily took center stage and sang World is Mine and Yellow. Then I got up and sang a few more songs before I looked at the clock and realized it was 12:07 at which point I ushered the band and my girls out of the hotel and back to my house.
Next Day: 7:45
"Where the hell are they?" Cameron grumbled
"It's Mr. Cameron, I should have told him 7:00 and he would have been here on time." I said, suddenly a bus drove up and stopped and HHO piled out of it.
"About time." Jackson said as he walked over to his drums and checked everything again as did the rest of Omega.
"Where are your Vocaloids?" Austin asked running up onto stage
"They're in the back getting ready. Were doing a dress rehearsal today so everyone is going to be in their costumes today."
"Oh, so that means it will take longer?"
"Yes, and provide everyone with some eye candy I'm sure." I replied and Austin smirked, I sighed before shooing him off stage.
"NO! I WON'T WEAR IT!" Came Luka's voice from back stage.
"Oh my god. What now?" I said in an annoyed tone. Everyone looked at me
"She yours?" Mr. Cameron asked, I nodded and went back stage. I walked up to the changing room door and opened it… why didn't it dawn on me that if she was complaining about a costume she was probably naked, along with all the other Vocaloids, not all of whom were mine. I got many an angry look, a frozen tuna to the face, and the door slammed in my face.
"He saw me… naked I'm ruined." Luka said.
"You'll be fine, beside your wearing this torso wrap anyways." Miku responded and stood up and walked over to the door. I was still sitting outside the door massaging my face. "Master, when are you ever going to learn to knock." She said before kissing my face, I blushed slightly and stood up.
"Tell Luka to quite complaining and get dressed we have a rehearsal that's already behind schedule."
"Yes sir." She said going inside after some discussion I heard Luka grudgingly agree to wear the costume.
'Excellent, lets get this rehearsal started.'
"Yes Ultimatum, lets." I responded