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-AMU'S POV-
Even with Yumi waking me up I still had to run to make it to the Midnight Mistress in time. When I finally made it it was nine fifty-two.
"Ha...made it..." I said as I tried to catch my breath.
"You sure did. But that was cutting it pretty close don't you think?" A voice said and I turned to see Jo standing behind the bar polishing a glass.
"Yeah sorry, my alarm clock didn't go off." I lied as I walked up to the bar.
"It's fine, we don't open til midnight." He said with a smile.
"What! Then why did Ben say to be here by ten?" I asked as I sat down at the bar.
"Because I needed you to fill out this application and meet the rest of the preformers who work here." Ben said as he walked down the steps from upstairs with a paper in his hand. He laid it down on the bar infront of me.
"Oh."
"Fill it out, then I'll introduce you to the others." He said before walking off.
"Whatever." I said as I turned to read over the paper. Jo held out a pen for me.
"Thanks." I said as I took it and started filling out the paper. I filled in the blanks that asked for my address, my weight, height, hair color, eye color, but stopped when it got to the section asking for my level of education, my age, my name, my phone number, and my parent's names.
"You have to fill all of it out." Jo said as he leaned over the bar and read over the application.
"I know." I said as I stared down at the application on the bar.
"Don't worry so much about it. Ben and the guys don't care how old you are or how smart you are, all they care about is that you can preform and bring in money for the club." A voice said behind me. I turned around to see a girl with golden blonde hair going down to the middle of her back in ringlets, dark green eyes, and a small angelic face standing behind me.
"Really?" I asked as I looked back to Jo who was nodding in agreement.
"In that case." I said as I quickly filled in my age, my education level, and put my name down as Xena Tai. I left my parent's names blank.
"Xena? So that's how you spell it." Jo said as he took the application from me.
"Yeah
"Yeah." I said turning back to look at the girl from before.
"You know you left your parent's names blank." Jo said as he walked over to the steps leading upstairs towards Ben's office.
"They're dead so I didn't think there'd be any point in filling it out." I quickly lied.
"Oh, I'm sorry." He said before disappearing.
"Amu why'd you say that about your parents?" Ran asked, but I ignored her and started talking to the girl instead.
"Hi, my name is Xena." I said holding out my hand.
"Hey, my name's Alice." She said with a smile as she shook my hand.
"Nice to meet you Alice. What kind of preformer are you?" I asked genuinely curious.
"Oh, I'm in the band. I play second guitar." She said smiling at my shocked face.
"Wow really? Wait, band?" I asked.
"Yeah, come on. I'll introduce you to the others." She said as she led the way over to a bunch of couches put together in the backroom of the club. I saw about four other people sitting around. Alice went straight over to a boy with short cut black hair, and crystal clear blue eyes. He was wearing a pair of light blue skinneys with tears in the knees, a red and black Skillet t-shirt, and a pair of black and white vans.
"Hey Alice, where you been?" He asked as she crawled into his lap. That's when I noticed what she was wearing. She had on a gothic styled black and red lolita dress with red and black stripped leggings and high heel boots.
"I just met the newbie." Alice said with a smile as she motioned me over. I walked up to the edge of the carpet on the wooden floor and stopped. Everyone sat up to look at me and I suddenly felt self-concious.
"A newbie huh?" The boy Alice was sitting with said.
"Yeah, her name is Xena." Alice said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you." The boy said standing up after setting Alice down on the couch next to a boy with long brown hair covering his face.
"My name's Grey." He said in a smooth tone as he held out his hand.
"Nice to meet you." I said as I took it.
"Don't just sit around, introduce yourselves!" Grey snapped at the rest of them and they all jumped up to introduce themselves.
"One at a time, one at a time!" Alice said standing up and fighting her way over to me.
"We don't want to overwhelm her." She said with a smile and I returned it shyly. "James, you go first." Alice said to the boy with the long brown hair. He stepped forward and lifted his head so I could see his emerald green eyes.
"My name's James, and I play first bass." He said with a smile. He was wearing a longsleeve gray shirt and a black shortsleeve shirt over it with a picture of Disturbed on the front, a pair of black skinneys, and a pair of black sneakers.
"Hey." I said as Alice shooed him away.
"Alright, next." She ordered and a boy with jet black hair with and ice blue highlights going down to just past the bottom of his ears stepped forward. His eyes were a deep chocolate brown. He was wearing a plain white longsleeve shirt with a simple black shortsleeve shirt over it, a pair of dark blue skinneys with holes in the knees and chains hanging down the left side, and a pair of black and white checkered vans.
"Hey, my name is Hikakuri, but just call me Hikaku. And I play drums." He said with a smile before stepping back and letting the last one of them take his place. A girl with straight light brown hair with red highlights down to her waist, with light brown eyes smiled shyly at me.
"This little angel is Chikari, our first guitarist." Alice said with a smile.
"Pleased to meet you." She said in a soft voice.
"Nice to meet you all." I said really happy to have met them.
"Well we've told you what we play, what about you?" Alice asked.
"Wait a second, Grey didn't tell her what he plays." James said and Alice elbowed him in the side.
"Shutup!" She hissed and I got confused.
"Sorry. I play second bass." Grey said laughing at James and Alice. I smiled to myself.
"So..." Hikaku prompted and I blushed.
"I...I s-"
"Seems like you've all met your new singer." Takki said from the doorway of the backroom.
"Eh? Singer!" They all yelled in unison and I blushed even more.
"Yeah. Well seems like you've met everyone Xena. We still don't open for another ten minutes, why don't you guys use that time to rehearse. You'll be the final act tonight. Use that time to get used to playing with her." Takki said before leaving.
"You sing?" Alice asked as she walked back up to me.
"Yeah." I said in a small voice.
"You any good?" James asked and got smacked in the head by Hikaku.
"Dude, don't be a douche." He said as he moved to stand beside me on the opposite side of Alice.
"Let's set up and find out." Grey said and everyone moved to head for the stage. Only Alice, and him stayed behind with me.
"Don't worry about it. Just sing whatever you want and we'll match it." She said before running up to the stage. I turned and followed her with my eyes, but stayed glued to the spot. Grey placed a hand on my shoulder and I turned to look up at him.
"Don't sweat it, we can play just about anything. Just sing whatever you want." He said with a smile before walking up to the staged. I stayed back and watched them set up. They tested the amps, the sound system in the club, and the microphones.
"Amu we should go up there." Ran said.
"I know, but what if they don't like my voice?" I asked nervously.
"Amu don't worry about it, you have a beautiful voice." Miki said and I smiled.
"Thanks, but still..."
"Want to character change with me again?" Zena asked and I nodded.
"My heart unlock." I said and the humpty lock around my neck glowed, then I transformed into Gothic Rebel.
'Let's do this Amu!'
'Right.' I said with a smile feeling better already.
"Ran, guys go sit at the bar and tell me later if you could hear me clearly or not." I said as I walked up onto the stage.
"Right." They all said in unison and flew off towards the bar. I climbed the stairs of the stage and walked past James who gave me the thumbs up, and Hikaku who smiled at me making me blush. I took my spot infront of the microphone and turned around uncertain to face the others.
'What should I sing?' I asked getting nervous.
"Xena?" Alice asked as she walked up to me.
"Sorry, but I don't like starting out on my own. Can you guys just play something and I'll sing something to go with it?" I asked slightly hopeful.
"Sure." She said with a smile and walked over to Grey and told him what I wanted.
"Alright. Guys, play the third song on a Wednesday night." He said. I didn't get anything of what he just said, but the others seemed to. They all started to play and I was amazed at how good they sounded.
'Man I hope I don't make them sound bad.' I said.
'You won't. Just sing what you feel in your heart Amu.' Zena said and I nodded. I took a deep breath and started to sing what I was feeling at the moment.
"I reached into the sky
Omoi wa todokanakute
Chiisaku sora ni kieta
Irotoridori no fuusen
I'm alone
Ikisaki no nai watashi no te wo
Sotto tsunaide kureta
Starless night, kako no kage furi kaeranai
Kanjitai anata no nukumori
Tears are falling down, mayotte mo hanashi wa shinai
Tsunaida anata no te wo
Sometimes, we fall apa-" I stopped singing when I heard everyone else stop playing. I turned around and saw they were all staring at me wide-eyed.
"What? Did I do something wrong? Did it not go with what you guys were playing? I'm sorr-"
"That was amazing!" Alice said running over to me and wrapping me in a hug. It had been so long since I last had a person hug me that I froze.
"Alice, you're scaring her." Grey said coming up behind her.
"Oh, sorry." Alice said letting me go.
"No, no it's fine." I said finally recovering from the shock.
"You were really good." James said in a shocked tone.
"Your voice is pretty." Chikari said with a smile.
"Wow." Was all Hikaku said, but it still made me blush.
"Did you really like it?" I asked quietly.
"Yes, I don't think we've ever found anyone who's voice fits so perfectly with our playing style." Grey said and I smiled.
"I see you guys like her. So what do you say Xena? You going to stay?" Takki asked. I looked around at everyone. My charas were nodding saying I should and I honestly couldn't see why I couldn't. They made me feel welcome and wanted.
"Sure." I said and they all screamed out in joy.
"Alright enough noisemaking. Get ready for tonight, we open in five minutes." Ben said coming back downstairs.
"Sorry B." Grey said as he told everyone to go back to their instruments.
'B?' I asked.
'Nickname maybe?' Zena said. I mentally shrugged.
"Alright you guys are officially a band now. Though you should come up with a name." Takki said.
"How about the Killer Pandas?" James asked.
"No!" Chikari yelled and James mumbled an apology.
"The Kidz?" Takki offered, but it was immediately shot down with a chorus of 'We're not kids!'.
"Alright then, Xena what do you think we should name the band?" Hikaku asked.
"Me?" I asked. Did they really want to know what I thought, but I just joined.
"Yeah, you're a member of the band now too." Alice said. They all turned towards me waiting for my answer and I thought about it for a while before coming up with something.
"The Guardians." I said with a smile.