So the people have voted. Let's see what the tallies added up to…!
/= [DAY 29] =/
After a few minutes of thinking about it last night, Charice decided to go ahead and do it. Unfortunately, the minute she sat up she didn't want to start inviting people (for some reason someone might get the wrong idea). So she decided to just make a poster and let them meet up in one of the empty chorus rooms. Five minutes of bullshiting it later, the poster was up in the lobby and Charice went on with her life.
School went on until it ended (no Le Mis rehearsals, either~!), and Charice dragged herself into the chorus room with the high hopes that someone would come up so that she would have someone to talk to. Sure enough, no one showed up. A knock echoed on the doorway, and she turned her head to see Irunya staring at her.
"Mind if we come in?"
"We?"
"Yeah. The whole music club is here!"
"Oh…that we…OK, sure."
Charice thought about her lack of boobs as the three of them started to walk into the empty room. She couldn't help but notice Roderich looking at her before looking around the room and realizing that there was literally no one save for the four of them.
"Um…why are you here?"
"We were told that there was a meeting for a glee club here." Eduard stated.
"There is…but everyone's probably too busy to come around." Charice sighed. "Well, this was a beautiful idea."
"It really was!" Irunya chirped (her breasts accenting her support). "I mean, we need chorus clubs in this school!"
"Too bad…we were interested in creating a joint alliance with the glee club if enough showed up."
"…a what?"
"A joint alliance. In other words, every day that you have a rehearsal we come as well to help." Roderich stated. "Would that work for you?"
"If enough people show up, you got a deal."
"How many until that deal?"
"Enough to run a club, really."
Roderich took that as a yes (how, we don't really know) as they continued to patiently wait for anyone who might come around. Charice was about to give up when a small image of a young girl peeked out from the door. She walked in, and it showed that it was a blond girl with large green eyes and a simple ribbon in her hair. The man behind him looked like a twin of hers: only his eyes were smaller and…was that a barrette on his head? He and Roderich were glaring at each other for some reason.
"May we help you?" Irunya asked.
"Is this the meeting place for that glee club on the poster?" The girl asked.
"Yeah, this is it!" Charice chirped. "As you can see…we don't have that many people in it yet, so…"
"That's fine! I told a lot of people about this, since it seems so interesting-oh, I should introduce myself. My name is Erika." She bowed. "He's Vash, my older brother."
"Well, I'm Charice. I have a brother too…but he's not here." She shrugged. "Well, disappointed?"
"Even though people aren't here, that doesn't mean that it's a failure." Erika stated. "It just means that we have to show people about this club."
"…so we just randomly sing until someone comes around?"
"This is a glee club, isn't it?" Erika smiled, obviously happy about the arrangement. "Let's sing something, Vash."
"…what, exactly?"
"I got it." Charice grinned. "No Air, by Rihanna and Chris Brown."
"Why are we singing an American song?"
"Because it's the first song that I thought up that didn't involve gratuitous material and doesn't bring up an image of drag queens."
"…what?"
"Nothing, nothing."
"Oh, I know that song~!" Irunya chirped. "Do you know how to play it?"
"Barely…but I'll just fill in the blanks." Eduard stated.
"…I know enough." Roderich said while propping his glasses (damn bishounen).
Before Charice knew it, they were singing the song to the accompany music. She had to admit, they sounded really good. Of course, she was singing along with Irunya ("I love this song!") while the other two were minding their own business. The door slid open again, and the image of Gilbert peeked inside with a girl from the Africa class. She didn't recognize her, but she had tightly braided hair and the Africa uniform that looked really good on her.
"You guys can come in, you know!" Charice chirped. "Registration is today, if you want in!"
"That's totally awesome, since I'm such a better singer than him!" Gilbert tried to scream over their awesome voices (which retaliated with Roderich playing the piano just a little louder). "You coming in, Etana?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah…whatever. It's more entertaining than the rest of the damn building." She answered.
They came in and before she knew it started singing the background of these two. Before she knew it, people were pouring in: Alfred (of course), Arthur, Feliciano (dragging in his brother), Elizabeta, another girl from the Africa class that she didn't know (Arthur called her Seyel), Kiku, Yong Soo, Yao Wang…the whole room was packed at this point. In fact, at one point the kid known as Feliks came in and somehow started playing the clarinet, bargaining with Roderich on registration into the music club.
Huh…this was a better idea than I thought! She chirped.
Through their voices, Charice was shocked to see that lights were coming out of Vash's and Erika's mouths as if their souls were leaving their bodies. However, she saw that it was only two social links (because during their dance, Charice had accidentally shattered the cards), forming some kind of tinker bell girl and a dog surrounded by beads.
["I AM THOU…"]
["AND THOU ART I."]
…this never happened before.
["AS THE INHABITANT OF THE WIND…"]
["AS THE PROTECTOR OF WHAT I HOLD DEAR…"]
["WE ARE AT YOUR COMMAND."]
The pixie thing started laughing as the cards sank into her body, startling Charice. However, the song was getting better and hence she forgot that she had just been harassed by cards and started to shimmy at the music. Well, then it ended. Whoops.
"Ve~~~is it over?"
"Dude, that was totally fun!" Alfred grinned. "Told you that the glee club's going to work!"
"Whoop de do." Charice laughed at her. "Nice to see that so many of you guys showed up! So…yeah, this is the glee club!"
"I love that show!" Elizabeta chirped.
"…exactly. We're basically like that, performing at any events that catch our eyes." Charice grinned. "Sign-up sheets are over there, so if you're going to be a permanent member go over there! Oh, and we meet weekly to compensate for the Le Mis rehearsals!"
They all charged into the line. She rolled her eyes to see that Matthew had been in the room this whole time, holding the bear that must've been Kumajiro from his mind world.
"Having fun here, Matt?"
"A little bit."
"Hey, the sign-ups are over there. Get to writing."
"R-right…"
Charice laughed as she saw the small mob that had formed. She had to admit: that was a whole lot more people than she had previously expected (heck, it was more than the entire Glee cast). She was going to be in for a huge ride of her life.
"Hey, Charice right?"
"Eh? Oh, your name is Feliks right?"
"Yeah." He leaned in with a smile. "Roderich's going into his happy mode."
"…why?"
"Well, check it! A whole bunch of nations signed up for the music club!" He grinned. "Hey, you take recommendations, right?"
"Um…sure."
"Just for one rehearsal…can you make them dress in drag?"
"Dude, I'm already thinking about it."
/=+=/
Etana is Uganda. This is a little close to me because a while ago a group named Invisible Children came over to our school to talk about how a group of high schoolers single-handedly brought a militant group in Uganda to American attention by a simple documentary and how the militant group is now in hiding and now being hunted down by the UN. In fact, the bill that called for American involvement in taking him down was signed by Obama (tells how recent this achievement was made). Uganda is now peaceful…well, more peaceful than most of the other nations. But yeah.
Erika is Liechtenstein. It's one of the names Himayura wanted to give her, so I went with it.
Sylph is basically that: a pixie that is cheerful and mischievous with control over the wind. They're one of the more well known legends. [Erika Vogel - Temperance]
Yatsufusa is from the novel Nonso Satomi Hakkenden, in which a lord jokingly promises his daughter's hand in marriage to a dog if it could defeat his enemy. It ends up that the dog comes back with his head, the lord not liking it, but the girl goes away anyway. Odd stuff, really. [Vash Zwiligi – Hanged Man]
And hence even more subplots are born. Don't you just love 'em?