Thursday came and went until after dinner when Levi, Bert, and Eren were sitting in Bert's suite on the couches in the living room area.
"Okay, so what the hell's going on?" Ymir asked as she leaned against her's and Krista's bedroom door.
"Eren has a project and he's asked a couple of us for help." Krista said from her desk, doing some of her homework.
"And why the hell wasn't I asked?" Ymir asked. Eren looked her dead in the eye.
"Feel Good INC." He dead panned. Ymir then nodded.
"Got it. Can't fucking stand that song."
"Which is why you should close your damn door so you can't hear us." Levi said, arms draped over the back of the couch and Eren for if he decided to lean back.
"Fuck you too." Ymir responded.
"He's already fucked Eren hard enough he was limping all day yesterday." Krista said distractedly. "Now could you close the damn door. I need to work and you hate the song anyways." Krista had a slightly commanding tone, and Ymir shut their door.
"Since when was she like that?" Levi asked.
"That'd be her 'queen' mode. She only reverts to it when she needs something done asap." Bert said. Levi just nodded slowly as they began to work.
"Okay, so this part right here, I'm not sure if they're actually saying anything, but it kinda sounds like they're singing 'shake it' so I'm just gonna add it in, alright?" Eren asked. The other two nodded as Eren started to write the lyrics down.
"So which part am I singing?" Levi asked as they listened to the song. Eren hummed lightly.
"Well, this part goes to high for me, so I'll sing 'Shake It' while you sing 'Feel Good'. Kay?" Eren said.
"I think he'd be good for the first verse." Bert suggested as that part started playing. As they listened, Eren nodded while Levi's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Is that a jab at me not smiling, you shit?" Levi asked after the 'Melancholy town where we never smile' part played.
"Don't forget the not getting sleep part." Eren said as he wrote more lyrics down.
"Fuck you." Levi growled.
"Did Tuesday night, I limped all day Wednesday, and we won't be again till after I'm done this project. Wait till we get back to our room and you can masturbate in the bathroom with the fantasies of my ass and pro cock sucking skills." Eren said as he continued working. Bert blushed lightly and sighed.
"What about the few echos in the rapping bit?" Bert asked. "Do you want to keep those in?" Eren hummed in acknowledgement of the statement and resisted the urge to nibble on the end of his pen. It was a habit he was trying to break.
"What about Baldy?" Levi asked. Eren and Bert both turned to him.
"Connie's not bald. He has a buzz-cut." Bert said.
"But Levi does have a point. It'd be perfect for Connie to fill in. It doesn't happen much and it's only a couple words anyways." Eren said.
"So are you just singing 'shake it'?" Levi asked his fiance as Eren leaned back finally, cuddling into Levi's side slightly.
"No, I'll also be singing the chorus. It's up higher in my range, but I can sing it easily. The 'Feel Good' strains my voice slightly, I'd have to bring it down an octave and it'd sound off." The crazy laugh came on and the three shuddered slightly.
"Fucking four eyes is going to have a fucking heart attack with how much creepy ass laughing she'll get to do." Levi said, groaning slightly. Eren nodded as he finished writing the lyrics.
"Alright. I think we're good for now. I've got parts assigned and lyrics transposed. Tuesday we'll try singing everything out, tweak things as needed. Thursday I'll do individual recordings of us singing our parts, than all of us singing everything all the way through together. That weekend we'll record. Bert, if you need help practicing the rapping-"
"Come to you." Bert said with a small smile. "And practice in my room so that Ymir won't kill me." Eren nodded.
"You can also consult Krista since she's helping as well." Eren added. Bert smiled a little wider and nodded.
"Thanks by the way Eren. For asking me to do this." Eren smiled as he stood, giving Bert a gentle fist to the shoulder.
"Thanks for agreeing. I can rap, but it's hard to switch from rapping that long back to singing." Eren said. Levi stood then and the couple left and headed back to their dorm room.
"Since we live together, we can work on it at anytime, if you want to." Eren said. Levi nodded as he opened their door.
"And by the time we're done with all this shit, we'll hate this song as much as Freckled Satan." Levi said. Eren began to laugh.
"Yes, Ymir is, infact, the Freckled Satan of our group."
"You got homework?" Levi asked. Eren nodded. "Well, let's go get to work. You have a work period with Petra tomorrow, right?" Eren nodded again.
"We'll be working on her dance for the video." Eren confirmed. Levi nodded and they went to do their homework.
Friday Eren walked into the dance studio on campus to find Petra already in there, dressed to work on the choreography with Eren.
"Hey Eren." She said brightly. "I hope you don't mind, but Gunther and Eld came as well, too watch for Aurou." Eren waved to the other werewolves.
"Aurou still pissed about April?" Eren asked. Petra let out an irritated huff, putting her hands on her hips.
"Yes. And he's been bitching about it for months. I'm surprised his damn tongue hasn't come off." She said. The other two werewolves laughed.
"It could be worse." Gunther said.
"Yeah, he could be here." Eld said. Petra rolled her eyes.
"He has Calculus to fail." The three males snickered as Petra clapped her hands together. "All right boys, you've had your fun. Gunther, Eld, do whatever you want. Eren, come tell me what the hell I'm doing for you." Eren nodded as he walked over, iPod and speaker in hand.
"Right. Well, you won't be recorded dancing for the entire video. I'm planning on switching between everyone involved."
"Including Hanji?" Eld asked from across the room, leaning against the wall.
"He'll fail if he does that." Gunther said. The two snickered lightly.
"She's only going to be in a focused frame for the last few seconds of the video." Eren said back, facing the mirror with Petra. "Alright, let's start." Eren pushed play on the iPod, standing straight.
"So I'm thinking for this part, just move your hips to the words, not the beat. Like this." Eren did what he wanted Petra to do, and Petra copied.
"Like this?" She asked, moving a lot more fluid then Eren. Was he jealous? No. Because Petra naturally had better hips than he did... okay he was a little jealous. He was also still a little sore from his fuck with Levi Tuesday.
"Yeah, just like that. And then for this part I don't think I'll film you, but I will with 'Love forever love is free' and I want you to do this." Eren knelt on the ground, both arms out with his palms towards the floor fingers reaching towards the floor as well. "You'll start here and then stand, but when I sing 'love forever', I want you to rotate your hand, bring your fingers closer to your body without moving your elbows, and then end with your hand flat, palm facing the ceiling." Eren said. "And on 'Love is free', you'll do the same thing with the other hand. By this point, you should be completely standing." Eren turned to Petra and she nodded.
"So like this?" She started kneeling, and went through it, but was a little off on the timing.
"Close." Eren said. "But you want to start the rotation as soon as I sing love. You don't want to start between 'love' and 'forever', because it'll throw everything else off." Eren said. Demonstrating while singing the line.
"Okay." Petra said. Eren paused the music and sang the line, watching Petra closely. "How was that?" She asked. Eren nodded and smiled.
"Perfect. For this song, you won't be doing too many big motions because the parts you'll be recorded doing will be slower parts." Petra nodded and they continued working through until their work period was over.
"Okay Petra. You did great! There's only a few places you seem to have issues with timing wise, but those will be easy to fix with more practice. Tomorrow, everyone will meet in here, I already got permission from the professors and staff. We'll work more then and I'll record us, giving you pointers to work on till next Friday, where I'll watch you do it again. I want to record next weekend." Petra nodded.
"Nice moves." Eld said as him and Gunther approached.
"Yeah, I never would've thought of having such soft movements to a song like this one." Gunther complimented, putting a hand on both their shoulders. "The rest of us will get to see the finished product, right?" Eren smiled wide and nodded.
"Of course! We'll meet up Monday night before it's due in my dorm room and watch it together." The two werewolf males smiled.
"Great. See ya later Eren." Eld said as they exited and went their separate ways.
In Mythical Studies, as soon as Vix entered, she had a huge smile on her face.
"Okay class. We're going to start our recap on Inca, Aztec, and Mayan Gods and Goddesses a little early, because I have no other reason to keep it at bay! So, Let's begin. Someone, tell me one of the Inca Gods." A hand went up. "Mr. Pepperstone."
"Mama Killa. She was the Goddess of marriage, festivals, and the moon." Vix smiled widely.
"Very good. Aztec? Ms. Anderson."
"Um... Mictlan...uh...Mictlande..."
"Mictlantechutli?" Her partner said.
"Yeah, he was the God of the underworld."
"Right. One of the harder ones to pronounce if you aren't custom to the mythology. Mayan?" Vix looked straight at Levi with a grin. "Mr. Rivaille?" Levi smirked right back.
"Chin, God of homosexual relationships and patron of homosexual prostitutes." Levi and Vix kept eye contact until Vix's smirk turned to a playful, ditsy smile.
"You would remember that one." Vix said, turning an eye to Eren. Eren groaned. "There a problem Mr. Yeager?" He looked up, eyes slightly narrowed in a 'don't fuck with me, you know' look. Vix just continued to smile before continuing the class, ending up focusing more on the Mayan Gods and Goddess.
I have only ever seen ONCE that Ymir has been referred to as 'Freckled Satan' and I couldn't fucking help it. I also did a little research on the different deities referred in this. And Chin is a real Mayan God. I had been looking for something about dragons, but the list I used had that one and I was just like 'holy fuck, yes!' so instead of a God/Goddess of Dragons, you got the God of Homosexual Relationships/Prostitutes!