Divine Diva
Chapter 16
The Crane
Short chapter alert
I think I know why I didn't get a lot of reviews but let's not talk about it.
I kind of changed my mind and decided to go Questshipping first.
Song Used: Seasonal Feathers (Kagamine Rin/Kagamine Len)
Translation by me…..
Paul woke up with a groan. He scratched his hair, his body was flaming and a little bit sweating as well. He cursed under his breath and looked at the time. 9 o'clock A.M Sunday. He groaned as he lied down on the bed again. He was tired from everything and was pretty angry. He shifted under his blanket and hugged a pillow nearby. He blinked and blushed as his dream came to his head. His best friend's girlfriend was in there. Naked.
He sat back up and threw on a plain white shirt and walked out of the room. He cursed under his breath before he headed back in to go to bathroom. After he was done he heard something downstairs and headed there and saw all of the girls there, watching movies. The girls saw him and looked away, blushing slightly.
"Paul, get your pants on. You don't want to get the girls' eyes rotten by seeing your boxers." Gary said as he covered his eyes. Paul headed back to his room and returned with jeans on him.
"Better." Jimmy said and earned a glare from the plumhead.
"What are they doing here?" Paul asked as he sat down on the floor near Drew.
"Came here to think. About the contract." Dawn said she grabbed a handful of popcorn from the bowl on the table.
"Contract?" Paul asked.
"Oh, you weren't there right? Well your aunt offered a place on her company. Saying that she would make us to the top." Misty said.
"So you said 'yes'?" Paul asked.
"She's coming here this afternoon. The girls will tell her then." Drew said getting some popcorn from Dawn's hand. "Hey!" Dawn complained but Drew ignored it.
"She's coming here?" Paul asked, horrified. The guys laughed but they looked like they could cry as well.
"What's wrong with Adelheit? She seemed pretty cool to me." May said.
"That's what you think. She's a pure shotacon." Ash said with a shudder.
"Shotacon?" Leaf asked.
"You will see. She will surely bring something to show you what is it to be a shotacon." Gary said with face that looked like his mental was broken or something. The same face applied to most of the guys except for Paul who was mumbling something.
"But sometimes it's worth it." Ash said.
"You only says that when it is food. Like the last time." Gary told him.
"That macaroon was definitely worth it." May's face lit up.
"Macaroon?" She asked.
"Yeah. She brought a whole set, it was good but the process of getting it….. Hah….." Gary sighed in middle of an explanation.
"My pride…." Drew sighed, fake crying and Dawn comforted him.
"Since when did you have one?" Paul asked grumpily earning a glare from Dawn and a punch from Drew.
Paul frowned as Dawn glared at him. He glared back and they were like that for about half a minute until Dawn turned away to Drew and snuggled into his arm. Paul turned away and stared at the movie, trying to calm himself down. He had no more hand to hurt anymore, both of his hands were injured.
After few more movies and wasting time Adelheit came in with lots of shopping bags. Reggie followed in with more. "Aunt Adel, you should do less shopping." Reggie said and everyone stood up to greet the aunt.
"No need to stand up. Now I bought you something…." Guys groaned.
"What? I didn't buy something that useless." Adel said as she took out a small boxes.
"Is that what I think it is?" Gary asked his friends who nodded.
"What?" Leaf asked Gary who gulped.
"Ta da!" Adelheit showed them what was inside.
"Um, doesn't that cost about 500$ each?" Ash asked.
"Yup." Adel answered with a huge grin. The girls were wondering how much she rakes in and the boys were wondering what will she demand from them. Not that they didn't want it, they wanted it.
"What is that?" Marina asked Jimmy.
"Emporio Armani Watch. They are like 500 bucks." He answered and Marina's jaw dropped open.
"Red has them too. Few I think." Leaf said, she obviously saw them before.
"He has like this huge watch collection." She added. Everyone remembered how rich Leaf was.
"Anyway. You know what I want, right?" Adelheit said, smiling. The boys hesitated.
"Aww, embarrassed to do it in front of the ladies?" Adelheit asked.
"YES!" The boys said and Adelheit sweatdropped.
"Just do it." May said, ready to watch. Dawn joined her and soon every girl did.
"Dawn…" Drew groaned, feeling betrayed.
"What? Dawn asked.
Drew didn't say anything but sighed.
"So….?" Adelheit asked, her arms crossed and she looked pretty impatient.
"Shota." Gary mumbled. He walked to her and with a flirtatious smile he winked at her as he swooped the box from Adel's hand. Though she didn't look so satisfied with it she let him go.
"It's okay, what I wanted from was Ash and Jimmy." Jimmy and Ash groaned.
"So, are you getting it?" Adel asked. The girls looked around, though not understanding the situation. Gary was putting the watch on his wrist and tilted his head a little. "You think it looks alright?" He asked Leaf.
"Fine." She answered as she sat down next to him.
"Hmm, can you answer with more detail?" Gary leaned to her.
"It doesn't suit you. Too good for you, happy?" Leaf said, Gary looked down, and sighed.
"Um, anyone else?" Jimmy stood up and did the similar thing he did when it was for macaroon,
"Ane-chan, onegai?" Jimmy asked with twinkling eyes. He felt himself blush in front of Marina though. Adelheit beamed and gave him the box. (A/N means older sister, please?)
"That's why she's a shotacon." Jimmy said as he sat down, still red from it.
"Do that again!" Marina said with a giggle.
"What?" Jimmy looked shocked.
"Please?" Marina said, giving her a puppy dog eyes. He looked nervous then repeated what he did to her and she hugged him. "That was so cute!" She exclaimed, making Jimmy blush even more.
Ash stepped up and gave Adelheit a puppy dog eyes with his knuckles on the both sides of his cheeks. "How cute!" Adelheit exclaimed and Ash returned with his face red from embarrassment.
"Drew? Paul?" Adel called but Paul was gone somewhere and Drew was refusing to do it.
"Not doing it." He said.
"Too embarrassing to do it in front of Dawn?" Adel teased and Drew embraced Dawn tighter to hide his blush from her. Dawn giggled as the grip got tighter, he was so cute. She inhaled his scent and smiled.
"Just tell me when you change your mind." Adelheit said as she walked up to the girls. She tossed a box to Drew who caught it. He put it in his pocket. Adel put another one on the table.
"Stop cuddling Drew and pay attention to me Dawn." Adelheit said and Dawn sat straight up, though they were still holding hands.
"Have you decided?" Adelheit asked.
"Yes. We spent the whole night talking about it." May said, her arms crossed.
"So…. Your answer?" She asked again, about to take out the slip but Dawn placed something on the table. It was the contract that Adelheit left on the table. She picked it up, all five of them had signed it. Adelheit beamed and hugged the girls
"Thank you." She said and the girls thanked the black haired woman back
"I should get going. Have lots of things to prepare." Adelheit stood up, patted Zoey on the shoulder,
"Remember?" Zoey nodded and soon with a wave she left
"What?" May asked Zoey who didn't answer.
"Is she gone?" Paul walked came from the basement.
"She left you that watch." Drew said as he pointed at the small box. Paul glared at it, picked it up then opened it. He looked at the watch, it was nice, it had black band and the clock was surrounded with elaborate touch of metal. He closed the lid and handed it to Dawn.
"Huh?" She asked
"Have it. I don't need it." He said as he shoved it into Dawn and walked upstairs. The girls and Gary smirked at the back of Paul but the rest, that included Dawn didn't seem to know what was going on.
"Um, this is men's watch." Dawn said as she looked inside it.
"You know it's yours. You can do whatever you want with it." Drew said.
Dawn looked at the box, recalling the face of the Grumpy. "I'll keep it." She said as he put it in her bag.
"Are you going to sell it or something?" Ash asked.
"No. I said I will keep it. I will return to him when he wants it back though." She said with a shrug.
A month after February
The girls were really tired. They returned from the concert they had and did some interview and finally returned to the dorm, 10:30.
"I'm going to sleep." Misty said climbing on to her bunk and falling asleep immediately.
"Not until you brush your teeth." Marina grabbed her cousin's collar and pulled her into the bathroom.
A phone ran and the girls picked it up to check it, it turned out to be Marina's.
"Hello?" Marina picked up the phone while shoving Misty into the bathroom.
"Marina?" A male voice asked, she checked the number and it was Jimmy.
"Hi Jimmy, what made you call so late?" She asked as she sat on the edge of her bed. The others except for Misty giggled at her and Marina frowned.
"Um, Adelheit told me to tell you to come tomorrow. After school, you got it?" He asked, there was a nervousness in his voice.
"Oh um sure. But why?" She asked.
"Ask your friend. She seemed to be in charge of it." Jimmy said and with a 'goodbye' the phone clicked and the call ended.
"Hmm, Zoey?" Marina called the only not-a-singer person in this room. Zoey looked down from her bunk and looked at her friend.
"Why does Adelheit want me tomorrow? Not you girls." Marina asked.
"Duet. I wrote a duet for you and a member in BLACK ROCK SHOOTER. Happy?" Zoey asked and it was when Misty came out of the bathroom.
"What? Then what about us?" The other girls looked up and complained.
"I haven't wrote yours. I will finish it someday. Not soon though." Zoey said lazily and before the girls started to nag her she decided to go to sleep right away.
Marina and the girls arrived at the Veilstone City and to the house. They knocked the door and the door swung open, showed Paul standing there with a frown.
"Come in." He said and stepped back. The girls walked in and saw Adelheit and the boys sitting in the living room.
"Hello sweethearts! How are you?" the girls answered the singer's question and sat down next to her.
"Did you bring it Zoey?" Adelheit asked and Zoey took out her laptop from the bag along with some sheets of paper.
"Thank you." Adelheit said and gave them to Marina and Jimmy.
"This is your duet. Think you can sing it? Zoey and I already planned out the music video as well. So, what do you think?" Jimmy and Marina read through the scrip of the music video and the lyrics as well.
"I'm not a human?" Marina asked and Zoey nodded. The others were really curious about the song but Adelheit didn't let them see it.
"You guys stay here, we are going down to practice and record this song. Don't sneak peak. This is a surprise." Adelheit others and guided, well almost dragged Jimmy and Marina to the basement.
The others waited there chatting, joking, watching movie, doing homework, and etc.
"What do you think Marina meant by not a human?" Dawn asked Drew.
"Just a song character I suppose." He answered.
Soon after the 4 came up from the studio and Adelheit was telling them to Hearthome City at Saturday. "And you will possibly have to stay there for the whole weekend so either you come at Friday evening or Saturday morning, you got it?" Adelheit said and the two nodded.
"Are you guys done?" Ash asked
"No. We have to try some more when we get to Hearthome. And maybe we have to go there after school everyday for filming." Jimmy said.
"Poor you." Gary mocked. Jimmy frowned at the playboy and turned to Marina who didn't look so tired, instead rather happy.
"It will be tired, just you see." Jimmy said.
"Was it like this when you filmed your other music videos?" May asked.
"Worse." Ash said with a chuckle and the guys smile faded as the trauma came to their mind.
"We are not talking about that." Drew said covering Dawn's ears.
"Of course not."
2 weeks later, still February
The girls gather around Zoey's laptop.
"I can't wait. All the students are watching it right now! I just can't believe it. It's going to be awesome! When's the album release?" May asked her friend.
"Tomorrow. Gosh, this is embarrassing." Marina hid her face and looked away from the screen.
"Okay, here I go." Zoey said as she clicked the video.
-music video-
Soft music starts to play, showing a small village snowing
Marina: The soft snow is painting the mountain side white
The small town's old house
Two, together, close to each other, spends the winter
The scene closed in, showed Marina in white kimono with red sash, leaning against Jimmy, wearing blue green kimono, in front of the fireplace.
'It was snowing the first day we met' You whisper to me with smile
Jimmy says something to her with smile
I hid my flushing face due to the fireplace into your sleeve's shadow
Marina, with red face snuggled into her 'husband''s arm.
The spring visits
The breeze's happiness, I sing together with birds
Marina is on the garden, singing with birds and Jimmy watching her
'Such a beautiful voice' you said
Jimmy mouthed the lyrics and it showed Marina with a bright smile at his words
Just that, those words, I was happy
She walked up to him
'If someday, my beautiful voice won't come out,
Will you still love me?'
She mouthed the lyrics and Jimmy laughed and walked to his 'wife'
'Of course' you put your hand on my cheek with a kind smile
Jimmy caressed Marina's cheek with a smile
The music became intense and it showed the sky more brighter and bluer
With shining blue leaf, one summer afternoon, you felt ill
It showed Jimmy falling on the ground and Marina running toward him
I couldn't buy a medicine to cure you with poor family's money
Marina was crying and she had a determined face on her, clenching fists on her heart
The day after, the day after
Just, always weaving cloth
Marina was sitting on the loom, working
I will not let your life fall like a plain maple leaf
She was working and her hand was a mess
The time flew
The bug cries 'ring' signaling the summer's end
Marina was kneeling next to Jimmy with hot water next to her
'Such a beautiful fingers' You held my disfigured hand, and the hand, the hand
It was so cold….
Marina looked like she was about to cry as Jimmy grabbed her hand, covered with wounds
'If someday when my beautiful fingers are gone, will you still love me?'
She looked down and Jimmy smiled at her
'Of course' with a coughing the big hand covered the injured hand
The scene faded slightly with two hands grabbing each other
Days, night I continue to weave
Hurry hurry, I need to get medicine –Jimmy: Aah, the sunset's wind
The scene showed Jimmy watching sunset and Marina running with a small package on her hand
Marina: just a little more, little more, before the leaf falls
Jimmy: The fruit getting rotten without love
Marina kept on running
Jimmy: shakes the lantern and drops
Marina: until this hand stops, until this feather is gone
It showed Marina weaving, and from outside the room a shadow of crane is sitting on the loom and it disappeared.
Marina: 'If someday, if I'm not a human anymore, are you still going to love me?'
Marina was alone in a dark room, her hands on her chest, tears slowly flowing down and was mouthing the lyrics
Too scared to tell you the truth
I alone pluck the last feather out
Marina was holding a feather on her hand, sitting on the loom
Someone hugged her from behind and held the hand with feather on it
Jimmy: 'Of course' I say with a smile
I hugged you who lost your wings
I still remember the crane flying beautifully
And I will
And of course, I love you.
The music video ended with Marina crying in his arms and the title appeared, Seasonal Feathers.
The girls gaped at the screen and turned to Marina who looked pretty embarrassed.
"That was awesome! The voice, the music, just so wonderful!" May exclaimed.
"Where did you even get the idea?" Dawn asked Zoey.
"There's a fairytale. The Grateful Crane. It's about this man who rescued a crane from a trap earned a wife later. And the woman, wife weaved cloth to make money and the man soon realized that it was the crane the woman, crane left the man." Zoey explained.
"Then what about the song?" Misty asked.
"Just because I got the idea from the story doesn't mean that I have to follow its whole plot." Zoey said with a sweatdrop.
"True." Misty agreed.
"I really enjoyed it. I loved singing it with Jimmy. He was always sweet to me." Marina said with a smile.
"Do you like him?" Zoey asked and Marina became red.
"What? No! I mean, I do, as in friends! Not like Drew and Dawn way, just, you know, friends! He is my good friend." Marina stammered and the girls snickered.
"Sure, sure. Don't try to full me cuz." Misty said with her arms crossed and a smirk.
"It's not that!" Marina kept on protesting with her face red as a tomato. No one believed her though.
With the boys
"I didn't know Jimmy could be that romantic." Ash said and Jimmy frowned.
"You two look cute together." Drew said.
"Will you stop teasing me?" Jimmy asked.
"No." Gary, Drew, Ash answered.
"You guys are evil." Jimmy said as he turned the computer off.
"We know we are. So are you going to ask her out or not?" Gary asked.
"What does that have to do with me singing with her?" Jimmy asked though he was blushing.
"Yeah, that means that I would have to go out that bitch if I sing a duet with her." Paul said.
"I'm sure you will go out with D-oomph!" Paul covered Gary's mouth and punched his gut so he won't say anything about it.
"One word and you will be headless." Paul threatened poor brunette.
"Back to the topic, do you like Marina or not?" Ash asked Jimmy, eating a bagel.
"No." Jimmy answered
'I love her'
I warned for the short chapter!
Alright first music video
As much as I wanted to make OldrivalShipping come first the plot I made bothered me.
I really need to follow the plot I planned.
September will come first, I'm sure of it.
I love the song I used, you should really listen to it
Please review! You will, right?