I got the idea for a band story featuring Axel as the lead from listening to TokioHotel. Bill Kaulitz's hair reminds me of Axel, and it inspired me. I hope to have this story seperatedfrom all the other fics featuring bands. As to my knowledge, none has Axel as lead. So here it is, my first band story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, nor do I own any of the characters in it. I also do not own the song Axel sings (Scream) it is the property of Tokio Hotel. All Fall Down and The Anthem are songs owned by OneRepublic and Good Charlotte respectively.
Behind the Stage
The cool yellow light of an overhead light bulb shines brightly. A lump on the couch stirs and blinks its eyes a few times to adjust to the light. It groans and gets up. A quick glance at the clock shows the time to be a quarter past seven. The 'lump' rushes into a bathroom and splashes itself with cold water.
'I really shouldn't have partied that long last night.'
It runs its hand through its hair to fix the bright red spikes. He sighs and leaves the room, and puts on a coat that was previously lying on the floor. He exits the room and walks down a hallway. A voice crackles over the loudspeaker.
"Axel! Get behind stage now!"
Axel speeds his walk up and is greeted by three other people waiting impatiently. One has a sour look on his face, most likely from Axel's chronic lateness. His guitar is strapped behind his back and it slips a bit as he bends to pick up Axel's own guitar.
He catches the guitar thrown at him and slings it around his shoulder, but takes it off a moment later.
"What is wrong with you?" The sour person says, "You're not playing guitar tonight?"
"No, just singing. I'm not in the mood, Roxas." Axel replies back. "C'mon, let's get this over with. Do you remember the set?"
"Uh..no actually, it wasn't posted."
"It's 'Scream', then 'All Fall Down', and finally 'The Anthem'." Another band member replies. Roxas scowls at the brown haired man.
"It's awful annoying that you know this stuff and I don't. You're only the drummer!"
Axel tunes out the rest of the argument between the two brothers. Riku will eventually break those two up he thinks. He walks to the front of the rotating stage and stands in front of the microphone stage. A quick check only serves to make sure the mic is plugged in. Satisfied, he turns back to the band.
"We're only playing three songs because two bands before us have opened. We're only the finale. Look alive, here we go."
An announcer came onto the main speakers and riled up the crowd. "Are you ready for the finale?" He asked as the crowd started roaring. "Well here they are, the final act, Sons of the Twilight!"
Axel took a deep breath before running over lines quickly in his head. He quickly gains his composure as the band behind him starts to play their instruments from behind the curtain. The crowd instantly recognizes the song and goes wild. The curtain opens up and the band is thrust out by the platform. He counts down the seconds until the lyrics begin. 3, 2, 1.
"You get up and somebody tells you where to go to.
When you get there, everybody's telling you what to do.
Thank you, it's been another bloody Monday
And no one is asking what you wanted anyway.
Nein, nein, nein, nanana, nein.
Nein, nein, nein, nanana, nein!
Scream, 'til you feel it.
Scream, 'til you believe it.
Scream, and when it hurts you,
Scream it out loud
Scream, 'til you feel it.
Scream, 'til you believe it.
Scream, and when it hurts you,
Scream it out loud."
He steps back and takes a breath. The rest of the band is furiously pounding away at the various instruments and Riku and Roxas were up to their usual antics. The two were running across the stage and doing their usual routine. He steps back to the microphone and leans in closer. His lips almost touching the microphone.
"Watch out, stay awake, they're lurkin'
Obsess you, they are always workin'
Promisin', everything you never asked for.
And one day it'll be too late and you beg for more
Nein, nein, nein, nanana, nein.
Nein, nein, nein, nanana, nein!
Scream, 'til you feel it.
Scream, 'til you believe it.
Scream, and when it hurts you,
Scream it out loud.
Scream, 'til you feel it.
Scream, 'til you believe it.
Scream, and when it hurts you,
Scream it out loud."
"Screeaaammm." Riku hums into his own microphone.
"Back to zero, your time's about to come." Axel shakes his head in beat with the song, the crazy part is about to come. He grips the microphone with both hands and pulls it close. "Let them know you're not just anyone."
"Screamm….Scream it out loud." Riku cuts in again.
A few more guitar notes go by and Axel drops his voice in a deep whisper, "Your time's about to come!"
The band blares out its guitars in a loud noise. Roxas drops into heavy riffs accompanied by a furious pounding from the drums by Sora.
"Scream, 'til you feel it.
Scream, 'til you believe it.
Scream, and when it hurts you,
Scream it out loud.
Scream, 'til you feel it.
Scream, 'til you believe it.
Scream, and when it hurts you,
Scream it out loud."
"Shut Up!" Axel yells into the microphone as the band becomes quiet. A second later they start back up again.
"No, can't you feel it
No, don't you believe it.
No, and when it hurts you.
Scream it out loud."
The final guitar riff belts out of Roxas' guitar. Riku drops his guitar, allowing it to hang against him, as he prepares to help Axel with the last lyrics.
"No, no, no, no, no, no. Scream it out loud! Screaammmmmm!" They sing in unison as the song closes.
Axel closes his eyes as the crowd goes wild and he smiles to himself. Another job well done, now two more to go…
He stops his thought process when out in the crowd he spots a fleeting glimpse of her. No, it can't be, he tells himself. She's all the way back in Minnesota. Still, he couldn't keep his mind off of the thought that maybe, she was here after all.
Later that night….
"Crazy show, Axel." Roxas says as he claps Axel on the back, smiling with booze in his hand.
Sora gets up drunkenly, "Yeah man, you delivered again." He says raising his glass. Riku nods his head in agreement from underneath a woman he picked up after the show.
"Thanks guys. Have fun with your party, I think I'm going to go outside for some fresh air." Despite Roxas' pleas for Axel to stay, he eventually leaves and makes his way down the road away from their hotel.
He wasn't paying attention to where he was going and he crashed into another pedestrian some blocks away. He got up first and offered his hand to help the pedestrian as well. It was then it dawned on him it was a girl, a beautiful one at that, with a familiar face. He gulped as she raised her eyes to meet his. Blue met his Green as he uttered a single sentence.
"It's you."
Well, there you have it. I hope you all enjoyed reading it. Please give me feedback as I would really like to continue this story but it won't be possible without support from reviewers.