I apologise for the amazingly stupid wait there's been between the last chapter and this chapter. I've been more into writing DR Who stuff than this (which will probably be updated after I've watched the Who tonight)
Oh and this is a boring little in-between chapter before Darkplace xxx
The Velvet Onion
As soon as Howard had shut the shutters and locked the front door to the shop he got a phone call from Bob Fossil, his ex-boss had practically screamed down the phone at him before he even had chance to utter a 'hello'.
"Moon! I need both you and Vincey down here pronto!" He bellowed making Howard hold the phone away from his ear slightly.
"What for, Mr Fossil?" He replied calmly trying not to loose his temper with the deranged man on the other end of the phone.
"For this party tonight. Now as your manager I'm telling you to get both your asses down here pronto and help sort this place out!" The phone clicked off leaving Howard to slam it back down on the counter.
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When Howard arrived at the Velvet Onion alone, Fossil was more than annoyed to see there was no Vince Noir with him.
"Moon! What did I tell you? Are you dumb as well as thick?" Howard took a second to roll the sentence over in his mind but it didn't make any sense "I told you to bring Vincey."
"I don't know where he is, his phone is switched off Mr. Fossil."
"Then get to work!"
"By doing what, exactly?"
"Clean the place up a bit, blow some balloons up, decorate…You know? Make it look like there's a party goin' on here!" Fossil headed off towards his office leaving Howard in the club with three other people. Two he knew from the Shaman council and the other he had never met before in his life, deciding he didn't like the Shaman much as they were both arguing he wandered over to the man working by the speakers and DJ booth.
"Hi there, Howard Moon, where ya from?" He spoke smoothly and smiled at the man who peered up over his glasses almost uncomfortably.
"Uhm, oh, you know? Around."
"What you workin' on there?"
"A simple connection really. I'm wiring up these speakers to all the other's in the club and creating a circuit so they all flow in a continuous route." Howard stared with a blank expression at the man "I'm connecting all the speakers to the decks."
"Oh. I see." Howard nodded his head and watched as the man effortlessly fiddled with wires inside the speakers "So…You know Bob Fossil?"
"Oh no not really. He's agreed to allow Nathan Barley to have his party here tonight and Nathan knows me so I agreed to sort out the technical side to tonight's events." Howard shuddered slightly at the mention of Nathan and decided to try phoning Vince again.
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"Damn, Vince!" He muttered slamming the disconnect button on his phone making the man look up.
"Trouble?"
"Yeah, my friend's phone is switched off."
"Ah." The man went back to fiddling with the speakers creating a high pitch squeal from them making everyone in the club cover their ears and complain about the noise "Sorry about that." The man apologised once he got the sound under control "Feedback…It's a motherflipper!"
"Yeah…" Howard nodded almost uncertainly then turned his attention toward the two Shaman who were screaming at each other even louder.
"Oh, don't mind them. They've been at it ever since they arrived."
"Going at it over what?" Howard asked looking slightly confused and annoyed.
"Over who should DJ tonight."
"Oh."
"Neither of them know that Nathan has already arranged a DJ." The man laughed slightly but Howard looked back completely dazed "Right, this should all be working now." He lifted up the large speaker and set it next to the DJ booth then wandered over to the Shaman "Uh, excuse me, yes, hello?" He caught their attention and both starred back almost angrily "The speakers are working so if one of you'd like to test them?"
"Alright son, I'll give it a go." One of the Shaman replied, a small pink head with tentacles.
"How are you going to get over to the decks you berk." The other Shaman replied, one with a long cloak and feather in his hat.
"I have my ways."
"Right. Well if you think I'm carrying you, you've got another thing coming." And with that the taller Shaman got up and headed toward the decks carrying with him a box of records.
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Music blared out of the club catching the attention of Fossil who emerged from his office, he strolled up to the man and shook his hand firmly then began barking orders at the worker's that had only just walked through the door. Howard was ordered to begin decorating with the help of the man so together and reluctantly they blew up balloons and hung posters and banners.
"Oh, I didn't catch your name." Howard began while tying helium balloons to a couple of the chairs.
"It's Maurice Moss, but people just call me Moss. Nice to meet you, Howard." They both shook hands and carried on with the work almost against their own will.
Apologies if some of the character's are off, I can't write 'geek language' very well XD