So, the day has come, the day that many in Royal Woods have been waiting for, which is sorta based from the episode "Dad Reputation" only without that bastard Lynnard and they're odd ball band. Song will be sung and someone is gonna be there, someone Luna doesn't wanna see. Enjoy reading this new chapter folks!
Helluva Loud Adventures.
"Royal Woods 2022 Music Festival."
(March 4. Tall Timbers Park.)
Welcome to the local secondary Park within Royal Woods, and contains the largest lake they got around the area, which is something not even Beaverton or Hazeltucky has, and this is the site where the Royal Woods Music Festival is being held and a lot of folks have shown up for this.
So many stands and other fun games have been setup and made, and dang good food is being catered and served, especially a food stand from Blitz-O's Diner, being controlled by Grant and Kotaro, and even some hellish folks have showed up to witness this.
Angel Dust, Charlie, Vaggie, Cherri Bomb, Alastor, Lady G Valentine, Verosika's Crew, Octavia, Stolas, Stella, Delilah and even Tannins and Athena. Lori and Leni are also there, and everyone else who is a former loud and family members of theirs.
But we're off the real deal, we head to the stage and this is where the real dealio is going down as the musical instruments have been setup and those chosen to perform are ready and going through the lyrics of the songs again and the way the beat goes.
We have: Luna, Sam and their band mates Sully and Mazzy. Lincoln, Blitzo, Verosika Mayday and Loona Silva Hound. Those four have been chosen for vocals, since this was the big plan Luna has to make the songs come to life. Oh, and we also have Moxxie there who will be on his violin since one of the songs needs something of his touch in musical tastes.
Luna then looks to the crowd as she peeks through the closed curtains and she is being cautious. "Sis? Something wrong?" asked Lincoln. Luna is startled by this, but then she calms down and Lincoln knows what this is all about. "Mick Swagger, right? You're still being cautious about him coming here, right?"
Luna sighs. "Yeah, the dude was gonna come here in disguise and I know he'll be in the same dumb outfit when he went undercover during the family talent show fair, and I don't wanna deal with him if he does show up. He did try to flirt with mom and I know that we don't like it. Not. One. Bit."
Lincoln nods and is stern. "Ditto on that sis. I swear if he shows up..."
"Then we handle the situation." they see Loona speak that and she walks over to them with the others. "No fucking way am I letting some old rock star man try and talk to me again, and I swear a lot of guys like me because of the way I look. Let it be human or hellhound, sorta."
Verosika scoffs. "Heard about Mick Swagger, and he once tried to ask me out. I wasn't in the mood for some old man who is trying to rock it out as if he was still young. He doesn't know me and he seemed less than amusing or worth the lust draining and other shit. What a fucking retard he is."
"We're not gonna let you guys handle this alone, we're all with you dudes" replied Sam.
"If that old British mother fucker tries something on my daughter, or on Verosika... Well, it's gonna turn to a fucking blood bath and no one will fucking know" said Blitzo as he grits his teeth in rage.
Just then they hear the mayor make an announcement. "Well looks like we're up guys. Let's make this happen" replied Mazzy. "Also, try and calm down guys and don't make a scene, I know Mick Swagger is gonna be here. But we gotta keep our cool, or this performance is gonna bomb, hard."
The others agree with Mazzy and they all prepare for the big performance they are gonna do and then they hear the mayor call out. "And now, I present to you... The Royal Woods, Royal Hell Fangs!" she then walks off the stage and the whole stage is dark, but then the sounds of a bell and xylophone are heard, and then the spotlight is on and they see who are singing.
Loona and Verosika:
In the dwindling twilight time is unwinding, lines are blurred.
Under the guise of a child into your Nightmare I've been lured.
Like a puppet, tied and hung up tightly bound.
Your strings I've been strung to, I dream that I'd run away from you if my feet could feel the ground.
Lincoln and Blitzo:
Now I'm out of the woods, safe and sound as I board up the doors.
But once I'm in the clear, and free of all fear, I find that I'm hungry for more.
The hunt has begun, hold onto your hats, if it isn't knives, its eyes in your back.
So whether or not you're friendly with rats, pretend you're a mouse in a house full of cats.
Loona and Verosika:
Pale is the prison they doomed me to dwell.
With room for just one, but two in a cell.
The dusk is upon us, I knew as it fell.
That darkness is honest, are you to yourself?
Lincoln and Blitzo:
With my thoughts are distorted and body dysmorphed into monstrous forms of the awfullest sorts.
We're locked up with dolls and their hollowed out corpses, all haunted by hunger, the omniscient force.
Loona:
So often my reveries are littered with the debris of my hopes and dreams.
As we all grow to be old and bitter, a tale foretold in broken screens.
Loona and Verosika:
How blinding the glare, your mind is so weak.
I'd like you to share this Nightmare with me.
I hide in my hood, not to show you my eyes.
I know that I'll fail with no coattail to ride.
Lincoln and Blitzo:
Mannequin paired with marionette.
In dissonant discord our deadly duet.
We're lost in a lullaby, slumbering away.
Where sins remain hidden, but rarely they stay.
Lincoln, Loona, Blitzo and Verosika:
It was only in my shadow that I'd finally found a friend.
Till the light that bound us let go and the devil took my hand.
As she closed my eyes remind me once again.
What's the dreamer's lie? "Every Nightmare has an end."
Loona and Verosika:
(Beware the dreamer's lie.) Very Nightmare has an end.
Or you'll be where the dreamers lie, some Nightmares never end.
Lincoln and Blitzo:
I sleep like the dead, nonetheless I am lucid.
If dreams have a meaning, perhaps I should tune in.
To the signal that beckons, familiar it seems.
Be silent, you might see yourself in its beams.
Loona and Verosika:
A knife or a noose is with what you'll be met.
If you try to play nice and stick out your neck.
I thrive in the shadows, untrusting of light.
Be warned if you join me, it's just for a bite.
I'd rather be lost and lonely.
Cause friends aren't meant to last.
Thought you finally got to know me.
But you've only met the mask.
Sad is my dream where the grass is quite green.
Turned into a pasture of mesmerized sheep.
I'd count them, but why should I bother.
In the end they're all meant to be slaughtered.
Lincoln, Loona, Blitzo and Verosika:
It was only in my shadow that I'd finally found a friend.
Till the light that bound us let go and the devil took my hand.
As she closed my eyes remind me once again.
What's the dreamer's lie? "Every Nightmare has an end."
Loona and Verosika:
Beware the dreamer's lie, every Nightmare has an end.
Or you'll be where the dreamers lie, some Nightmares never end.
The song is over, and everyone remains silent, and then they clap and cheer at the performance they all just made. They were amazed at the timing when Verosika switched between her human and succubus form, but the ones mostly applauding are the Young Morticians Club, despite them clapping in less of an exciting manner.
Luna sighs in relief. 'It worked, the whole thing fucking worked. Thank the fucking Lucifer from below that this shit worked and sounded awesome!' she then sees the others in the band look to Luna, they smile and nod and she knows what that means. 'Right, the second song time. Time to make this shit happen.'
Luna then speaks on the microphone. "Oh, this isn't even close to being over people! Are you ready for more?!" Everyone cheers, and they wanna hear more of their awesome performance. Luna chuckles. "Then let us make it rain!"
The ones leaving the stage are Blitzo, Verosika and Loona, and they only allow Luna, Sam and Lincoln and the others to remain for what they are about to perform and then Mazzy counts to three and they begin to sing and start the beat.
Lincoln, Luna and Sam:
I do not mind the rain sometimes.
'Cause that's the only way the roses bloom.
In my mind, when I cry, when I cry.
That's the only way the roses bloom.
Lincoln:
Its okay, I'm not okay, I.
Feel the disarray of yesterday, oh my.
I need to feel the raindrops.
On my head, on my head.
I know I know nothing so, I.
Embrace what I cannot control, oh my.
Trouble walks beside me.
Till my end, till my end.
(Instrumental.)
Lincoln, Luna and Sam:
I do not mind the rain sometimes.
'Cause that's the only way the roses bloom.
In my mind, when I cry, when I cry.
'Cause that's the only way that the roses bloom. (Yuh, yuh.)
Luna and Sam:
It's better to have loved and lost, but.
The feeling, it comes at a cost, oh my.
My poor heart is.
My only friend, only friend.
And I've come to love a heavy sky. (Heavy sky.)
The lightning couldn't beat my shine, oh my.
Trouble walks beside me.
Till my end, till my end.
Lincoln, Luna and Sam:
I do not mind the rain sometimes.
'Cause that's the only way the roses bloom.
In my mind, when I cry, when I cry.
'Cause that's the only way that the roses bloom.
Hand on my heart, I said I made.
Peace with the rain. (Peace with the rain.)
Peace with the rain. (Peace with the rain.)
Now I dance with the pain (yeah, come closer) yeah (dance with me.)
Hand on my heart, I said I made.
Peace with the rain. (Peace with the rain.)
Peace with the rain. (Peace with the rain.)
Now I slow dance with the pain. ('cause that's when.) Yeah. (Roses bloom.)
(Roses, roses. That's the only way the roses bloom, yeah.) Yeah.
(Electric Guitar Solo!)
Lincoln, Luna and Sam:
I do not mind the rain sometimes.
'Cause that's the only way the roses bloom.
In my mind, when I cry, when I cry.
'Cause that's the only way (that the roses bloom.)
That's the only way the roses bloom.
Everyone cheers and claps at what they performed and this is one loud standing ovation. Luna and Sam sigh in relief and so the rest of the band take a bow from their amazing performance, and Loona, Blitzo and Verosika clap and cheer as well.
The Succubus is impressed. 'Dang, Lunes knows how to play those tunes, and to perform it alongside Sam and Lincoln makes it sound even better. Perhaps, if they still intend to have some part-time jobs on earth, I could help them manage their musical career, they could use it.'
As everyone continues to cheer and clap at their amazing performance, they are unaware of the man disguised in the crowd. Mick Swagger and he is truly impressed. 'Wow. Luna sure knows how to make an amazing performance, and with her girlfriend and brother and the rest of her band. That little lady has a bloody good damn future ahead of her.'
'I guess the rumors are true, Verosika Mayday is a succubus, and I flirted with her once. I question why she didn't try to do anything demonic to me. Soon, I will talk to them and make up for my actions last time, I should really ease up when I see a lovely lady.'
Mick Swagger then takes his leave, not knowing that Lucy did notice him and she didn't like where this is going. 'Luna and the others have to be told, Mick Swagger did arrive, and chances he'll wanna talk to them soon.'
To be continued folks!
A/N: The Music Festival is a total hit and everyone loved what they all did, and all thanks to Lucy and her song idea for the first stick and going all the way to the song Luna and Sam made, and it seems like a certain rockstar man is there, and plans to speak with them soon, possibly in another chapter soon. I hope you all enjoyed reading this new chapter folks!
"Nightmares never end" by JT Musics ft. Andrea Kaden Storm for Little Nightmares 2.
"Rain" by grandson & Jessie Reyez for the film The Suicide Squad.
Date made: 1/2/22 – 1/3/22.