Ch. 17

AN: Hello everyone. I'm JulieTulips and I decided to help out my friend PartingGrace with this story since she's so busy right now and make her job easier since I love it. So I'm now correcting the grammar, excuse me if it isn't as perfect as hers. She said I could put a few comments in, so mine will be in italics. Enjoy!

I would like you guys to give a big virtual hand to my coeditor (is that the right word?) JulieTulips! Since I am so lazy, and this story suffers because of it, she is now editing the grammar and spelling mistakes! Then we both put in commentary! Do you know what that means? That means that you get:

1. More commentary! Yay!

2. You don't have to listen to me whine about needing tea and having migraines. Although Julie may need some Advil or something.

3. Faster updates! We hope…

That's a sweet comment, but I do have a few grammar flaws, not perfect, but thank you for saying so! XD

AN: I said, stop flaming the story! If you're a prep, then don't read it! You can tell whether you're a prep or not by my quiz, it's on my homepage. If you're not, then you rock. If you are then F*** OFF! P.S. Willow isn't really a prep. Raven, please don't do this, I promise to give you back your poster!

Don't do what? You know that feeling you get when you're missing half of a conversation? I have that feeling right now… I don't like it.

Tom Riddle gave us some clothes and stuff for free.

You're losing money!

He said he would help us with makeup if we wanted, because he was really into fashion and stuff. (He's bisexual).

Well, that's just offensive. Stereotyping much? No kidding! It's very offensive. I have met so many non-gay hairdressers that it's not funny.

Hagrid kept shouting at us to come back to Hogwarts.
"What the f***, Hagrid?" I shouted angrily. "F*** off, you ****ing bastard." Well, anyway, Willow came. Hagrid went away angrily.

Erm, shouldn't you listen to him? I mean, lots of weird stuff has been happening and it couldn't hurt to make sure that your school is alright. Where did Willow come from? I thought she was expelled because Tara was mad at Raven? Julie's right! If I remember correctly, Willow was expelled, killed and then ****ed by a necrophiliac. I hate zombies.

"Hey, b****, you look kawaii," she said.
"Yeah, but not as kawaii as you," I answered sadly because Willow's really pretty and everything.

Japanese people everywhere are cringing. (Or anyone who knows Japanese, I'm pretty sure that they're using it in the wrong context as my Japanese is rusty. By rusty, I mean nonexistent.)
Huh, so Tara missed having someone around to fix her grammar without being sick? I can see her point, it's a difficult thing.

She was wearing a short black corset with blood red lace on it and a black blood-red miniskirt. She also wore leather fish-nets and black pointy boots that showed off how pale she was. She had a really nice body, with big boobs and everything. She was thin enough to be anorexic.

Sorry, leather fish-nets? What?
How does being thin enough to be anorexic make a girl pretty? I'd be concerned if I were you, Ebony.

"So, are you going to the concert with Draco?" she asked.
"Yeah," I said happily.
"I'm going with Diabolo," she answered happily.
Well, anyway, Draco and Diabolo came. They were both looking extremely hot and sexy and you could tell that they thought that we were hot, too. Diabolo was wearing a black t-shirt that said '666' on it. He was wearing tons of makeup, just like Marylin Manson. Draco was wearing black leather pants, a gothic black GC t-shirt and black Vans he got from the Warped Tower.

Where is this Warped Tower? I'm currently playing a video game with a warped tower in it, and I thought of that tower and did a double take. I thought, "Argh! Why were they in that tower, there are orcs everywhere!" Then I realized, that them going into a video game is highly unlikely. Also, leather pants. Ick. Hot and sticky. He's going to bake in England's hot, muggy summers.

Bloody Mary was going to the concert with Dracula. Dracula used to be called Neville but it turned out that he was kidnapped at birth and his real family were vampires. They died in a car crash.

Didn't you say yourself that you can't kill a vampire except with crosses and other such things? Then again, who cares, Ebony has done things that should've killed her a few times throughout this story… Ahhh… Don't you just love those secret vampire children scattered through this story?

Edited Out: Our dear friend Navel.

Neville has converted to Satanism and he went Goth as well. He is in Slytherin now. He was wearing a black Warped Tower t-shirt, black jeans and shoes. His black hair had red streaks in it. We call him Dracula now. Well, anyway, we all went to Draco's black Mercy-Bens (Get it, because we're gothic) that his dad Lucius gave him. We did pot, coke and crack.

No, Ebony, bad girl. Did it kill you? Can it kill you? Please die!

Edited Out: a drugs-are-bad rant

Draco and I made out.

You do know that Dracula/Neville and Bloody Mary/Hermione are there, right? I would not make out with someone in front of other people.

We made fun of those stupid f***ing preps. We got there… I gasped.

You weren't going anywhere…

Gerard Way was the sexiest guy ever! He looked even sexier than he did in my pictures. He had long raven black hair and piercing blue eyes. He was really skinny and he had an amazing voice.

Edited Out: Gerard's ethnic voice. I don't think that a voice can be ethnic… Epic, yes, but not ethnic.

We moshed to 'Helena' and some other songs. Suddenly Gerard popped off his mask. So did the other members of the band. I gasped. It wasn't Gerard at all! It was an ugly preppy man with no nose and red eyes. Everyone ran away but me and Draco. Draco and I went to the stage. It was Voldemort and the Death Eaters!

I AM SO DONE WITH THIS STORY. That's the second time already. Besides, where did they get masks that realistic? I'm very impressed.Look what you've done Tara! My poor co-editor has cracked already! Everyone, send PMs to JulieTulips begging her to continue being my co-editor! Hurry! Before it's too late!
Edited out: Unnecessary ellipses.

"You moronic idiots!" He shouted angstily.

Pretty sure that isn't a real word.I… I don't know…

"Ebony, I told you to kill Vampire. You have failed. Now I will kill you and Draco!"

Edited out: More of Voldemort's terrible Elizabethan English. Is Voldemort a zombie of Shakespeare? That had a bit too much to drink? I think that he's just your regular cookie cutter villain actually.

Suddenly, a gothic old man flew in on his broomstick. He had long black hair and a very long black beard. He was wearing a black robe that said "Avril Lavigne" on the back. He shot a spell and Voldemort ran away. It was Dumbledore!
So now Dumbledore (or as Tara calls him, Dumblydore) is a gothic Avril Lavigne fan? And Voldemort is scared of a few little spells?

Time for this chapters treat: facts that will probably convince you that Ebony is, in fact, probably emo.

1. Evanescence is categorized as 'Emo' music, and not 'Goth' music

2. A person, usually teenage, that has trouble handling his/her own emotions, and/or is emotionally unstable. Can have multiple means of releasing or inducing emotions, such as talking, mutilation(usually of self or inanimate objects), or even listening to music. Most emos are pushed to suicide by others, and usually become emo due to a personality trait that is frowned upon unjustly in society, such as bisexuality. Emos usually do not want to be. Can be considered a mental disorder. (cut and pasted from define/emo)

3. Ebony shows 4 of the above mentioned traits: trouble handling her emotions, emotionally unstable, mutilation and listening to music to express her emotions

4. Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well ****, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, ****, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

5. I just thought that that was so well researched it had to be mentioned. BurningBunnyEX wrote this at question/index?qid=20061130155802AAXLN6G

6. So most of this wasn't mine, but still, that's pretty neat! …Wait, doesn't the well-researched bit pummel down the former bit? ****.

7. Try out the quiz on my homepage! Just for kicks. Comment. Now.

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