Chapter 18: Tales of the SS Soul (Guitar Hero)
Meanwhile, at the ship's arcade, Will was trying out some of the games in the room.
"Damn?! Who the hell created this game?!" Will yelled while playing a game called Superman 64. "I can't believe this, this is boring! All you ever do is fly through rings and pick up cars!" She stood up from her chair and walks away from the game with a huff. She digs her hands into her pockets and realize her pockets are empty. "Great! And I ran out of nickels!"
After she walks away from the game, she heard a commotion. "Ha! I beat you, Jake! Now pay up!" A voice yelled. She turned her head and saw some people gathering around a game machine called Guitar Hero. The voice came from a teenage boy named Uriah, who was holding the guitar. With him are two other boys named Kurt and Laurent. A boy named Jake Long sighed as he handed him ten dollars and leave.
"Next victim! Anyone?" Uriah asked. Some people shook their heads and walked away. "Ha! I knew it! All of you are losers!"
"Yeah, you got that right, Uriah! No one can beat you!" Kurt agreed.
"You're the best!" Laurent said. Will groaned and rolled her eyes at this display. Uriah spotted Will behind the crowd and smirked.
"What about you? I bet you can't beat me in Guitar Hero!" Uriah mocked.
"Of course she won't! She's a girl!" Kurt said. Will turned to the boys and glares as the boys cackled.
"So, you think I can't beat you just because I'm a weak little girl, huh?" Will said as she put her hands on her hips. Uriah, Kurt and Laurent stop cackling.
"Oh, so you think you're so tough, huh? Well come on! Challenge me! I bet 20 bucks that you won't beat me!" Uriah snapped.
Will smirked and walks over to the boys and the machine. "Alright, I will." She said confidently. The people started murmuring to each other. After walking over to the machine, Will carries the second player guitar and Uriah puts in two coins into the machine.
Uriah then uses the guitar to select which song he wants to play. The song he selected was 'Holiday in Cambodia' by The Dead Kennedys.
"Let's see if you can beat this." Uriah smirked. Will looks unimpressed. A board then appears on the screen on the machine and Uriah then plays as the music notes start rolling down the board.
Male Singer: So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear…
Brace yourself, my dear…
It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife
You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you
Well you'll work harder
With a GUN in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son…
What you need, my son…
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack
The people behind him and Will, not amused, clapped their hands for a while.
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot,
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot...(etc.)
And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
Pol Pot!
The words 'You Rock!' flashes on the screen and the people, still not amused, clapped their hands. Kurt and Laurent however, hooted rambunctiously and clapped their hands wildly for their leader.
"You rock, Uriah!" Laurent cheered. The screen then shows Uriah's score.
"Ha! 95 percent! Beat that!" Uriah said to Will. Will yawned and then selects her song. After going through the song list, Will selected a song that made Kurt, Laurent and the people behind them gasped.
"I'm choosing this song." Will said.
"She's gonna play 'Through the Fire and the Flames' by Dragonforce?! Is she nuts?" Kurt said shocked.
"That's the hardest song on Guitar hero! There's no way she can beat that song!" Laurent added.
Uriah cackled and said, "Looks like I've already won." Will rolled her eyes and gets ready her guitar as the board appears on the screen. Some of the people behind them murmur to each other, wondering if Will can beat the song.
When the notes start rolling down the board however…Will starts playing the guitar like a heavy metal guitarist! This made Uriah, Kurt and Laurent drop their jaws and the people widen their eyes in amazement.
(40 second music interval)
Male Singer: On a cold winter morning
In the time before the light
In flames of death's eternal reign
We ride towards the fight
When the darkness is falling down
And the times are tough or right
The sound of evil laughter
Falls around the world tonight
Fightin' hard, fightin' on for the steel
Through the wastelands evermore
The scattered souls will feel the hell
Bodies wasted on the shores
On the blackest wings in hell's terrain
We watch the lands become
In fire and flame, now once again we know
So now we're flying, we're free
We're free before the thunderstorm
Hunt towards the wilderness
Our quest carries on
Far beyond the sun down, far beyond the moonlight
Deep inside our hearts and all our souls
So far away we wait for the day
For the lives all so wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days
Through the fire and the flames we carry on
As Will continues playing, the people murmur to each other for a while, then turn their heads back to Will and cheered for her. Uriah, Kurt and Laurent continues staring at the screen dumbfounded.
As the red day is dawning
And the lightning cracks the sky
They will raise their hands to the heavens above
With resentment in their eyes
Running back through the midmorning light
There's a burning in my heart
We're banished from the time in the foreign land
To a light beyond the stars
In your blackest dreams see to the need
That destiny is tied
And endlessly we're roaming free tonight
And on the wings of a dream so far beyond reality
All alone in desperation, now the time has gone
Lust inside you'll never find, lust within my own mind
Day after day this misery must go on
So far away we wait for the day
For the lives all so wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days
Through the fire and the flames we carry on
The people are now cheered wildly and whistling.
Whoa Oh Oh, Whoa Oh Oh, Whoa Oh Oh Oh Oh,
Whoa Oh Oh, Whoa Oh Oh, Whoa Oh Oh Oh Oh,
(2 Minute Music Interval)
Now here we stand with their blood on our hands
We fought so hard, now can we understand
I'll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can
For freedom of every man
So far away we wait for the day
For the lives all so wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days
Through the fire and the flames we carry on
(40 Second Music Interval)
After Will finished playing, everybody (except Kurt, Laurent and Uriah) erupted with cheers! The words 'You rock!' flashes on the screen. Will breathes heavily and strokes her hair as she puts down her guitar. The screen shows her final score, which is…100 percent!
Uriah drops his jaw as he looks at Will's score. Will said to him with a smirk as she holds out her hand, "Beat that." Uriah hung his head in defeat and puts 120 dollars on Will's hand. Will counts her money, then walks away from him and the machine. The people cheered loudly as Will walks through them.
END OF CHAPTER
Ryo: Woohoo! Will rocks!
Will: I know!
Ryo: The songs in the chapter are 'Holiday in Cambodia' by Dead Kenndys and 'Through the Fire and the Falmes' by Dragonforce. Both songs are in Guitar hero 3: Legends of Rock. But the one by Dragonfroce is the most hardest song in the Guitar hero series. Really. Also, the game Will played at the beginning of the chapter is Superman 64. If you guys want to know how HORRIBLE the game is, check out a review of the game by the Angry Video Game Nerd on Gametrailers. Anyways, next chapter coming soon. Read and review!