So. I had motivation to write this story, so it's getting an update! Yay!
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds or any of these songs… Enjoy!
Chapter 12
"What are you doing now?" Sky asks me.
Unlike most times, where I'm sitting in front of my laptop, I'm running around the room, lifting things to see if anything is under them. Each time I fail to find what I'm looking for, I let out a noise that sounds like TV static only not as loud. I'm on the ground now, trying to peer under the couch. "I'm looking for my 3DS. It went missing on Saturday when my family had to mass-clean our house for my little sister's birthday party."
Real-Jack snorts, "Hmph. Serves you right."
I sigh, because my gaming system isn't under the couch… "See, this is why I hate it when my family mass-cleans our house. Something of mine always goes missing. I mean, last time it was about $50. The time before that, it was my flashdrive. The money has still never been found, but I believe my brother took it… and my DS… but he won't admit it…"
"Can't you just buy a new one?" Robin asks.
"No," I reply quickly. "One, I don't have nearly that much money. Two, my parents aren't going to replace it. Three, my DS has Bravely Default in it, two downloaded games—Liberation Maiden and this Pokémon ripoff called Crystal Monsters, and the Future Past DLC in Fire Emblem: Awakening on its SD Card. Four, and this is the most important one, I still have about twelve dollars in my Nintendo Network account, which is what I would use to buy more things. This money/account isn't transferable, at least to my knowledge. So even if my parents would replace my DS, my games and their datas would be lost forever."
"Huh. Well, sucks to be you, then," Robin says.
I roll my eyes. "Hmm… You guys ready to start? I've searched to the limit of my patience."
"If it means getting me out of this ridiculous costume, then yes," Primo says.
Shrugging, I grab a name out of the bowl. "Hmm… looks like the winners are Shade, Piano, and Rudolph! Oh! I almost forgot. Just ignore Mumble and Aqua. I'm keeping an eye on them for mcdinh, because it's apparently unsafe for them to be in her story at the moment."
"Arf arf!"
"Flabébé!"
"Hmph. Fine," Shade says, getting on the stage. "Meri! Lucifer! You two want so sing the background part?"
"Sure!" they reply simultaneously, hopping on the stage.
With that, the song starts. "Don't matter what you look like! Don't matter what you wear! How many rings you got on your finger! We don't care!" Shade sings.
I have to clamp my hand over my mouth to prevent myself from bursting into uncontrollable laughter.
"No, we don't care!" Meri and Lucifer sing.
"Don't matter where you come from! Don't even matter what you are! A dog, a pig, a cow, a goat; had 'em all in here!"
Meri and Lucifer's part, "We had 'em all in here."
Back to Shade, "And they all knew what they wanted… What they wanted me to do! I told 'em what they needed, just like I be telling you! You got to… dig a little deeper! Find out who you are…! You got to… dig a little deeper! It really ain't that far! When you find out who you are, you'll find out what you need! Blue skies and sunshine guaranteed!"
"You got to dig," Shade sings.
"Dig!" comes the echo.
"You got to dig."
"Dig!"
And then it's back to the main song, with Shade turning to Rudolph and singing, "Prince Froggy is a rich little boy… You wanna be rich again. That ain't gonna make you happy now. Did it make you happy then? No! Money ain't got no soul…! Money ain't got no heart…! All you need is some self-control; make yourself a brand new start! You got to… dig a little deeper! Don't have far to go…! You got to… dig a little deeper! Tell the people Mama told you so! Can't tell you what you'll find! Maybe love will grant you peace of mind. Dig a little deeper and you'll know…"
Now Shade turns to Piano, and continues, "Miss Froggy, might I have a word? You's a hard one, that's what I heard. Your daddy was a loving man; family through and through. You your daddy's daughter… What he had in him you got in you. You got to… dig a little deeper! For you it's gonna be tough. You got to… dig a little deeper! You ain't dug near far enough! Dig down deep inside yourself, you'll find out what you need. Blue skies and sunshine guaranteed! Open up the windows! Let in the light children!"
"Blue skies and sunshine! Blue skies and sunshine!" Meri and Lucifer sing.
There's this really strange pause and then a female voice singing, "Blue skies and sunshine!" Which is weird, because that was technically Piano's part but she can't say anything aside from a variation of "Flabébé".
"Guaranteed," Shade says.
"Ahhh…" Lucifer and Meri finish.
With the song over, everyone claps.
"Ugh, finally," Shade says. She claps her hands together and returns to normal—that is, a guy wearing a pinstripe suit and a red tie… I still don't know why he likes that suit so much.
Lucifer immediately jumps over to me, whips his purple staff out from God-knows-where and says, "Here, take it back! I changed what I want to wish for."
"To what…?" I ask.
"A mantis shrimp!" my white-haired, red-eyed muse exclaims.
Silence falls into the room for a few moments, until I shout, "No. Absolutely not."
"What's a mantis shrimp?" Luna asks.
"Yeah, and why won't you let him have one?" Leo adds. "It sounds harmless!"
"It's not—" I start.
Lucifer interrupts, "It's only one of the most amazing animals on the planet! Look, I have a few pictures of them!"
He holds up pictures of, like the name suggests, a mantis-like shrimp. The body of each animal is all colorful and stuff, and I think I hear Carl exclaim, "Aw, it's so cute!"
"Even better is that, while humans have three color-receptor cones, the mantis shrimp has sixteen!" Lucifer continues. "So when we see a rainbow, the mantis shrimp sees… uh… how'd that comic put it, Meri?"
"'Where we see a rainbow, the mantis shrimp sees a thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty!'" Meri chimes in.
I glare at the female version of my muse (why am I letting them both stay?), and say, "Meri, why would you tell Lucifer about the mantis shrimp?"
"Why not?" she retorts.
"Geez, what's so wrong with the mantis shrimp?" Leo asks.
"Lucifer's only told you one aspect of the mantis shrimp," I reply. "There are three others that put me off. One, it has two appendages that it can shoot off at the speed of a 22 caliber rifle. Two, it can boil water by clapping—some weird sonic thingy to kill its prey if the appendages miss. And three, it will use these on literally everything and anything that gets in its way. It isn't even in aquariums because it would just break the glass!"
"Onetwothree death!" Meri says, and then she proceeds to laugh.
I have to admit, that comic was pretty funny and entirely true, but… "No mantis shrimps, alright?"
"But what if I keep it in a bubble version of the Everything Shield?" Lucifer whines. "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee—"
I snap my fingers, and a piece of duct tape appears over Lucifer's mouth. Instead, he starts to hum at the same exact pitch he had been holding out the 'e' on. I shake my head, saying, "That isn't working this time."
He keeps humming.
"Well, I'm just going to move on, then. Let's see who the winner is now…" I reach into the bowl, grab one of the few remaining cards, and say, "Luna! You're the lucky winner, with Colors of the Wind!"
"Ooh, yay!" she exclaims, clapping. "That one's my favorite!"
With that, the green-haired girl climbs up to the stage, and I start the music. "You think I'm an ignorant savage. And you've been so many places, I guess it must be so…But still I cannot see… If the savage one is me… How can there be so much that you don't know? You… don't… know…" Luna begins.
Wow, she's really good at this.
"You think you own whatever land you land on… The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim… But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name…! You think the only people who are people… are the people who look and think like you! But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger… You'll learn things… you never knew… you never knew…"
Okay, I seriously think this song fits Luna extremely well. I made a nice choice.
"Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon… or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"
There's a music break, and once it's over, Luna continues singing. "Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest… Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth…! Come roll in all the riches all around you… and for once, never wonder what they're worth… The rainstorm and the river are my brothers… The heron and the otter are my friends…! And we are all connected to each other… In a circle, in a hoop that never ends…!"
Okay, either this one is just higher than the previous verse, or there was a key change. I'm not good at telling when key changes are, though, unless I have the sheet music in front of me… Pretty sure it was a key change, though.
"How high will the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you'll never know! And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon! For whether we are white or copper skinned…! We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains! We need to paint with all the colors of the wind…! You can own the Earth and still all you'll own is Earth until…! You can paint with all the colors of… the… wind…"
That's the end of the song, and I think Leo is the one clapping the loudest, followed by Yasmine and Akira.
Luna curtseys, and then leaves the stage.
"Okay… no random interjections this time…" I mumble. "Let's see who's the last song for this chapter! The remaining two will be done next chapter!" I reach into the bowl and pull out… A card with red scribbles all over it…? I sigh. "Joseph, with Under the Sea. Oh, and Joseph?"
"Yes?"
"Why the red scribbles?"
"No reason," he replies smugly, before getting on the stage (via a backwards crabwalk…). I sigh again. Clearly Joseph lives up to his standard of neutral-yet-insane-muse. Though recently, he's been straying more on the side of evil…
I start the song, and I can't help but bob my head to the rhythm. Joseph, who apparently has the ability to perfectly mimic accents, starts singing, "The seaweed is always greener… in somebody else's lake! You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake! Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor! Such wonderful things surround you! What more is you lookin' for?"
And on to the chorus, "Under the sea…! Under the sea…! Darling it's better, down where it's wetter… Take it from me…! Up on the shore they work all day… Out in the sun they slave away! While we devotin' full time to floatin' under the sea!"
Meri and muse-Jack (again, why am I letting two of them still be here?) are off in their corner, singing along without any care in the world.
"Down here all the fish is happy… as off through the waves they roll! The fish on the land ain't happy, they sad 'cause they in their bowl! But fish in the bowl is lucky, they in for a worser fate! One day when the boss get hungry…" Joseph's voice suddenly goes deep for the last line of that verse, "Guess who's gon' be on the plate?"
His voice goes back to normal for the chorus again. "Under the sea…! Under the sea…! Nobody beat us, fry us and eat us, in fricassee…! We what the land folks loves to cook… Under the sea we off the hook… We got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea! Under the sea! Since life is sweet here, we got the beat here, naturally! Even the sturgeon an' the ray… They get the urge 'n' start to play… We got the spirit, you got to hear it, under the sea!"
Huh, that was like a double or triple chorus or something. Either way, it goes to the part that I think is the bridge if I remember my music terms correctly, as my other muses make sure the animals/"instruments" show up in the background. Joseph sings (well, more like lists off everything), "The newt play the flute. The carp play the harp. The plaice play the bass, and they soundin' sharp. The bass play the brass. The chub play the tub. The fluke is the duke of soul! The ray he can play the lings on the strings. The trout rockin' out. The blackfish she sings. The smelt and the sprat, they know where it's at. An' oh that blowfish blow!"
There's a very long music break with a bunch of holograms. Near the end of the break, I swear I hear a keychain. Geez, what is it with me and music stuff today? …Anyways, Joseph starts the chorus again, "Under the sea…! Under the sea…! When the sardine begin the beguine, it's music to me! What do they got? A lot of sand, we got a hot crustacean band! Each little clam here know how to jam here, under the sea! Each little slug here cuttin' a rug here, under the sea! Each little snail here know how to wail here! That's why it's hotter under the water! Ya we in luck here, down in the muck here, under the sea…!"
Cue the clapping! Joseph did pretty good, and he crabwalks off the stage over to me. "Hey! Hey! I know what my wish is!" he exclaims.
"What is it?" Inwardly, I cringe. I don't know what he wants.
"Can I be a mantis shrimp? I mean, I'm already perfectly insane but I promise I won't hurt anyone and… and… won't it also work as Lucifer's wish?" He looks at the still-gagged and still holding out the note muse, who furiously shakes his head. Lucifer clearly wants a real one, not Joseph.
"Maybe. I have to think about it," I reply. "Besides, I'm not granting wishes until after everyone's gone."
Joseph does this miniature happy dance, which is really just him bouncing a little bit and moving his hands like bike pedals in really small circles. "You didn't say no! Yay!"
With that, he takes his seat.
"Uh, Shimmering-Sky, I think there's something wrong with your bowl," Robin says.
"Huh? There's nothing wrong with my bowl," I reply.
"There're two songs left, aren't there? But there's only one slip of paper left," the orange-haired teen replies.
"Oh, that," I wave my hand dismissively. "That's because Hakuna Matata was always going to be last. Meaning Jack and Carl are the first to go next chapter."
"…I hate you," Lester mumbles.
Primo mutters something. Probably the same thing, only a lot more vulgar.
"C'mon, it's called saving the best for last!" And by best, I mean probably the most hilarious. Because they have to act everything out. That includes the grub-eating stuff. Hehehe…
My flashdrive decides to fall into the arm of the couch I'm on. I make my weird little squeaking noise—the one I make whenever I drop something—and I grab my flashdrive before it falls any deeper. And then I realize that there's something else in the couch arm. Something that, most definitely, was not there yesterday. Or earlier.
"EEEEK! MY 3DS! I FOUND IT!" I exclaim, pulling it out of the couch and checking it over for damages.
"…In the arm of the couch? Didn't you look there?" Sky asks.
"Yes! This definitely wasn't there earlier today!" I reply. "But who cares! I found it!"
~To be continued~
Yep, next chapter wraps up the Disney Karaoke. It should be fun… Oh, and that's literally how I found my 3DS.
Please review, and still send me some truths or dares! I'm still accepting them! I'm always accepting them! …Well, unless I'm eating. Then I will be angry and try to murder you in your sleep. *Winkwinknudgenudge to the person who understands what I'm referring to*
…I'm sorry, that last part was written by Lucifer, and he won't let me delete it. Oh, now it looks like he's going to post
