The screams from the crowd were immense! The more songs we played, the louder they got! We were absolutely loving it. I really didn't want to leave the stage, but with only half an hour to show what you can do, we gave it all that we got! I ran all over the stage, the crowd fully in my control as I got them to sing sections of our songs and jump along with me during solos. There was nothing more thrilling that I could experience right now that could give me a better high than being on stage in front of thousands of people screaming for you and applauding your songs.
Sadly that moment came when we had to get off stage. I grabbed the microphone from the stand for the last time tonight and spoke to the crowd. "Alright guys. I'm sorry to say that this is it for tonight! Thank you so much for turning up and supporting our friends 'All Fired Up'! (pausing for the screams that followed that). I hope you enjoy them as much as we do and hope that you have enjoyed our music, we are The Mages thank you again and good night!" I shout placing the microphone back onto the stand and waving to the crowd as we make our way off stage.
As soon as we reach the bottom of the stairs while wiping the sweat off our faces with towels we were given, I am immediately in the arms of Levy, Erza and Juvia in a group hug, screaming and jumping up and down. That was such a rush and such a success. I was so worried that we were going to be bottled and we didn't! We got applauded instead! I am so happy right now that if this was my last night on earth, I would have no regrets. Next thing we know we break from our group hug to see the boys standing there getting themselves ready for their set and charging us into another group hug, then hugging us individually.
"You guys were epic!" Gajeel said
"We all were singing alone at the sides." Grey said
"You guys looked amazing on stage!" Jellal said
"You guys owned that stage and that audience tonight! They loved you!" Natsu said lastly hugged me. I couldn't believe it! I had just played in front of thousands of people and now I am about to watch one of my favourite bands perform a set live! The girls and I stay at the side of the stage while the boys mentally prepare themselves and do their preshow rituals. I watch them all run onstage and hear the deafening screams coming from the audience the second Natsu walks on stage with the others. "Alright!" I hear Natsu scream through the microphone. "How awesome were The Mages! Give it up for them" The girls and I scream and hug each other tightly as the realisation that the audience were applauding us sunk in. "Excellent! Right Let's go guys this is our first song!"
Watching Natsu on stage working the crowd, I can see why the guys were so popular and why I liked them in the first place. This was officially a dream come true and I am thanking my lucky stars that I am sharing the stage with this band in particular. It's only been a day with them and we are already really close. The girls and I stay at the side watching, dancing and singing along to the set as if we were in the audience. We were having a fantastic time! So much so that the time seemed to pass so quickly that out of no where it was the guys last song!
Once again applause and screams erupted from the crowd as the boys joined together at the front of the stage, took a bow and walked off stage waving goodbye. They immediately find us and we all join in a mass group hug, before we are suddenly stopped by Makarov and Mira-Jane.
"Oi brats. We need to go now and I mean NOW! All of your stuff in the rooms have been picked up, we need to go to the tour buses before we all get blocked in!" Makarov says to us making us run towards the buses. The boys in the first one, us in the second one. We all crash on the sofas trying to calm ourselves down while at the same time jumping up and down in jubilation and excitement. "We have just done our first proper tour gig! Oh my God!" Levy shouted while we all joined celebrating.
"Hey guys look at this." Juvia says looking out the blacked out windows of our bus. We had just started to move when we heard more screams! As we were exiting the car park inside the venue, there were large crowds of people screaming for us and trying to take loads of photos. We all joined Juvia at the side of the window and started to wave to the people outside until they were out of sight.
We all slumped back into the sofas as we just sat there and let our night just sink in. We started discussing parts of the show that we liked and disliked and were even inspired enough to write a draft of a song that we could potentially play on tour to try out.
After a few hours, we were all shattered and decided to go to bed as we still had another 8 hours of travelling to do. We all clambered our way to bed and as I laid in my bunk reliving most of tonight, my eyes became heavy and the world went black while a grin was plastered on my face.
I have no idea what time it was when I woke up. All I knew was that it was the best sleep I had had in months! I knew that there was no work to do, there was no practice….just the ability to sleep so I let myself lie in for a few minutes, enjoying the fact that the ringing from my ears last night had disappeared before getting changed and walking downstairs to grab some breakfast.
I came downstairs and met the girls eating breakfast and surprise surprise we were still on the move. Natsu warned me about this and he was not kidding. He even told me that he has severe travel sickness. I have no idea how he copes with this much travelling involved!
I went and made myself some toast and sat down next to Juvia.
"Morning guys. Everyone okay?"
"Morning Lucy" The girls replied together.
"So what's the plan for today?" I ask knowing full well that one of the others would have probably revised the time table we got given this week.
"We have a free day today. We have so much travelling today we won't have another gig until tomorrow. But we do have a radio interview this afternoon we need to be ready for. We were supposed to go to them, but the radio station is actually coming to us! Probably about something to do with talking to the guys aswell as a free bonus." Erza explains
"It's like buy one get one free" Levy jokes making us laugh.
"Juvia plans to hang out with Gray-sama a little bit before the interview today." Juvia says out of the blue.
"Gray-sama?" I ask a little curious. "Are we developing a little liking to Grey over here?"
Juvia immediately starts to blush. "No not at all. Juvia just wants to talk to Gray-sama and hang out with him today."
"Oh come on Juvia! That's bull! You like him don't you" Levy says making us all laugh and tease poor Juvia for a good half an hour while she sat there and took it, her face was turning as bright as Erza's hair.
"But seriously Juvia do you really like him?" I ask him after the teasing had died down.
Juvia takes a deep breath. "Juvia think Gray-sama is amazing. Juvia does like Gray-sama but Juvia is not sure if Gray-sama likes Juvia."
"I think that's great. Gray is a really nice guy." I say showing moral support.
"I agree. Just hang out with him for the week or so and you will know for sure. It's only been a day since we met them all so give it time. For all we know you may not like him after he does something completely disgusting or he might like you back. You just don't know." Erza says forever being the wise one.
"Wow one day. Is that really how long we have known them for? Just one day? It feels like longer than that." The girls all nod and agree.
"Thank you Erza. Juvia appreciates the advise. Juvia will get to know Gray-sama more." We all smile and continue our conversation about how we rocked last night and how we were going to continue the awesomeness on stage.
Within the next few hours, we had a brand new setlist and we finished the song we started last night! We were so excited that we wanted to play it to the guys but instead we decided to make it a surprise for them to hear.
Walking off the bus when it finally came to a stop later that night, we all were shattered despite doing nothing! Mira Jane caught us as we were stretching our legs while walking onto solid ground again grateful that we were not in a moving motion.
"Okay guys. Tonight there is no gig. Because we were going to be arriving so late, we decided for you all to perform tomorrow night instead. Don't worry this was already planned so no one lost out here." We all nodded "Good. Now tonight you can do what you like. We haven't got anything for you all to do until tomorrow. But just for the heads up, in a week, you all are going to the local radio station to be interviewed. The boys are going there aswell but you all have a separate interview. There are hotels for you tonight, so just cut loose. You guys and the boys all have the floor to yourself to make sure no one gets into your rooms. Erza…"Mira Jane says handing Erza 4 cards "These are your room key cards. Look after them well! Otherwise the money is coming out of your royalties money once we start recording time in a few weeks"
Oh my God I completely forgot that we were recording during the middle of our tour! Mira told us ages ago that during the tour she had booked us two weeks to get a few tracks down that we could release as a single! This is so cool! I am genuinely living my dream now! We all start to get giddy from the mention of our recording time and make our way to our rooms trying to decide what to do first.
And this is chapter 5! hope you guys like it. I am aware that Juvia does put -chan and -san at the end of every name but I got confused writing it so I am only putting in the -sama at the end of Gray's name!
Thank you so much for reading this! Please favourite follow and review! Every time I get an email saying someone has does one of these it inspires me to carry on with my story - and believe me it get sSO much better! I cant wait for you all to read it :D
