Let's Unwind a LITTLE, Shall We? (Invite Only)

[nintendonut1]

(For now, invited includes Felix, FF, and Gantz. And Kisa if we need her, since her character own the place, I believe)

Needless to say, Masahiro's return was met with less harshness than expected. More or less, most were just glad to have SOME normalcy return. Percy especially; the boy had clung to the angel tightly and wouldn't leave his side for a thing in the world. He thanked his Guardian Angel tremendously, and all was... well, somewhat right with the world.

Someone had raised a stink that they all needed to get out of the stupid House of Blue Leaves. Aforementioned 'someone' was probably Eddy. The decision was made so quickly it was all a blur.

Someone ELSE (Wally, I'm led to believe), mentioned a hot kareoke bar that had recently opened up at the mall. It didn't sound like a bad idea, and when they got there, they hadn't regretted it.

"WOW!" Ed cheered happily, the first to parade inside the colorful enviornment.

[gantzgun74]

Indeed it had been Wally who had suggested the Karaoke Bar. He had visited this place on normal occasion inbetween bouts of chaos from the villains of the Island. It was always a great place to unwind, and when asked if he knew any place to help the gang do just that... Well here they were.

Wally grinned as he strode in, all caution to the wind. "I know, ain't this place great, Ed mate! And it only gets better!"

"I'm still not sure I know what Karaoke means..."

Wally looked to the girl that had said that, and smiled lovingly. It was, really by accident that her presence was here, after Arcadia Valley came to the Island. She had followed Wally, Otto and double D out of the Valley to have a look at what had caught their interest so beyond the mountain borders...

Well imagine Rachel's surprise, after being discovered by Otto, and given a tour of the Void City. Several months later, Rachel was, by then, accustomed to the city. "I mean, out of all the places I've been to, I don't think I've been here before, Wally."

"Ditto to what Rach' said." Following similar circumstances was what lead Rin-Rin out of the Valley as well, though really, this was her first day out of the Valley. "This place almost looks... Cartoonish."

"Fits Wally in that case." Otto grinned at his joke. "He often is a clown."

Wally chuckled at the crack. Who was he deny that? He knew it was true and he was proud of that fact.

Finally, rounding out this Author's side of the character selection, Kosumu and Talim were the last to come in, taking the place in. Kosumu was bouncing up and down in joy at the sight of the place, more then loving it. "Oh!! Sister... Look!" He pointed at the various designs covering the walls. "Colorful!"

Talim smiled with a nod. "Yes indeed they are."

[Felix Falora]

"Finally," Trevor said, walking into the bar and looking over it's colorful decorations with a somewhat childish sparkle in his eyes. "Finally a place of peace and rest."

"Enjoy the tranquility of it while you can," King said, not at all really amused. "I probably won't be able to..."

"No need to act like a jackass King, I know why you hate this place," Trevor said with a sort of mischievious smirk on his face. "After all, I've heard ya singing in the shower."

"Why are you outside listening to me in the shower?!" King asked, punching Trevor childishly, though a heavy embarassed blush was on his face the whole while.

Masahiro chuckled at their antics. After everything that had happened, it was nice to see that some of them had managed to keep the humor that made them who they were. He had feared everyone would've been destroyed by everything that had been happening. It was highly satisfying to see that hadn't been the case. Sometimes he felt King was right. Angels such as himself had a tendency to underestimate the mentality and psyche of humans. Here these individuals were, people who had all suffered a heavy loss... all moving on from it.

"Now now, little boy, certainly you don't think you're hurting me, are you?" Trevor said flirtingly to King and then flicked him off with a chuckle.

King picked himself up and refused to say anything, though he was blushing due to the humiliation of it all and just trailed beside Fletcher now.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Kyle hadn't really wanted to come to the karaoke bar. Even though they'd found Masahiro, he'd still been in a bit of a funk. In fact, he'd been against going to the Mall at all. His suggestion had been rather harshly vetoed infinity to one by Marion.

To make things worse, Tree had found their new address, despite Crow's attempts to keep her from finding out.

"Actually," Tree had claimed. "I always knew. I just chose this very moment, when you're about to go waste the next 5 pages dicking around at a karaoke joint, to break in and wreck your shit."

So somehow, Tree, Snowy, Todd, and Ark had gotten dragged along, much to just about everyone's chagrin. Tree had jumped ahead of the group once they arrived at the karaoke bar and stopped to count them.

"Uh.... let's see, one, two, thirty-six, one-million and five... Uh, do they even allow groups of twenty in single booths?" Tree asked. Crow glared.

"I'm sure we can fit," Crow said.

"Whatever you say. Man, this place is gaudy."

"...I kind of like it," Kyle said. Crow grinned.

"Yeah, a perfect venue for your beautiful singing voice, Kyle," Crow teased. "Right, we gonna head in or not?"

[nintendonut1]

"Ooooooh!" To a young mind, everything is better in bright technicolor. Marion, awkwardly walking a toddler-level walk with her hand gripped firmly in her father's, gazed around the bar with wide eyes of pale blue in awe. "Pretty!!"

"Yes, indeed, Marion~oop!" Double D caught her almost falling over as she tried pulling away in excitement. "Now, now, stay with the group. Maybe when we're settled in you can wander and look around with Uncle Raz or Kyle."

"Yay!"

"Man... this takes me back," Raz noted fondly. "Reminds me of Milla's mental world."

"The gogo-dancer woman you mentioned? Huh." Fletcher made a face as he was helping King up. "Alright, Trev, give it a rest."

[gantzgun74]

Wally walked up to the front desk casually, as if he had done this a thousand times before, Rachel right behind him. "Heya! Service please!"

As Wally proceeded to chat with whoever came up to the front desk, Otto grabbed a nearby booklet. The booklet had a list of songs that the Karaoke bar had for singing; intrigued, the boy looked through each one carefully. Rin-Rin was reading it too. "Wow... A few of these songs have some weird titles..."

"Their considered normal here Rin-Rin." Otto grinned. "You get used to it." He then turned the page. "Hmmm... Falling in the Black, eh? That sounds interesting..."

Rin-Rin shook her head at the boy, smiling lightly. "Guh, men..."

Curious, Kosumu grabbed his own copy of the booklet, and read through it. "Wow!! Many songs!"

[Felix Falora]

"Hoorah for coming from a semi-normal world," Trevor muttered to himself as he looked through the song list. "I at least know what most of these songs are."

"These songs sound weird," King muttered to himself. Seems he had different music where he lived then.

"Errrrr..." Masahiro wasn't sure he'd be interested in singing the songs they had up there. Angel instinct... avoid rock and roll, metal, and the like.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Crow shrugged and went to look at the song list. She grinned as she saw one song title. "Hey, Kyle, I think I found the song for you." The song title was "I Don't Wanna Be In Love."

"......Hilarious," Kyle said sarcastically. Tree raised an eyebrow.

"Sarcasm? Wow, Kyle. That's so like you!" Tree said sarcastically herself. Kyle looked guilty.

"Sorry, I don't really want to be here..."

"I vote we ignore Sir Grumpypants and just head on in," Tree said. Ark nodded enthusiastically at that. Snowy shrugged.

"Well, to be honest, I don't know much of these songs myself," Crow said. She closed the booklet. "Though I don't listen to the radio, so that likely has something to do with it."

"Yeah, who needs car radios when you can fly?" Tree grumbled.

"What was that?"

"Nothing~"

Ark was looking through a music booklet too. "Ooh... I like the sound of this song... 'Baby' by .... Justin Bieber?"

"ABSOLUTELY NOT."

Ark flinched at Tree, Snowy, and Todd's triple objection. "Okay, okay... but I don't know any other songs..."

[nintendonut1]

"Stupid kid singer getting all that money..." Eddy grumbled and groaned, earning a sympathetic pat from Raz.

"Ooooooh!" Ed beamed and already began to sing a song he was interested in, along with a funny dance. "It's a Dead Man's Party, who could ask for more~!"

"And then that's when I told 'em, look, either you take it or leave it, sweetheart, even if I made the shirt in less than half an hour doesn't mean I didn't put the LOVE in it...!"

A few group members straightened up at that voice, which seemed vaguely familiar, and was coming from the guy talking to Wally, equal in the boy's wild enthusiasm.

As Marion giggled in his arms, Double D blinked. "Could it be?"

[gantzgun74]

Wally laughed out loud at the statement made by the guy at the front desk, "A-MEN! Preach it brudduh!" Grinning after that, he put his hands behind his head. "Man it's always a riot talkin' to ya, mate. You're my kinda guy!"

Otto looked to Double D and the others with confusion. "You know this guy?"

[Felix Falora]

"I'll be singing next," Masahiro said with a chuckle. "Need to practice again."

"Aren't angels gifted in singing?" King muttered under his breath.

"I heard that," Masahiro replied to King, poking his nose. "There was an angel I knew, Jarod. Nice guy, cared for humans, caused some of the miracles of life in our Lord's name... sings with the voice of a thousand souls screaming in agony."

"That bad?" King asked.

"He had been cursed by the Devil for saving some innocents. We still haven't found a way to undo it," Masahiro replied. "But he's happy, so no foul really don..."

"ELLY!" Trevor exclaimed when I finally found out who it was singing. "It's been ages, dear, where have you been?!"

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Unfortunately for just about everyone in Tree's group, plus Crow and Kyle, none of them had ever met the person in question. Crow in particular raised an eyebrow. Okay, so they had a lot of gay men in their group, but that man was unabashedly flamingly gay, and for that reason he stood out to Crow.

"Uh, pardon my German, but who the fuck are you?" Crow asked.

_{"I think the analogy's 'pardon my french',"} Tree whispered to Snowy, who groaned.

"You don't want to use that when someone in your group actually DOES speak French," Snowy explained.

[nintendonut1]

"...Elwood!!" Fletcher was the first to approach him personally, as as he turned in his chair, a big grin spreading across his face, Fletcher looked the youth over. The youth wearing a sheer green top, laced erratically about his torso, a three-layered skirt with non-matching patterns, and high heels.

And the Brit smirked. "Are you slipping? I've seen this outfit before."

"Fletch, my man!!" Elwood greeted in return, hopping out of his chair to embrace his leader. "Mi, Tilde, Percy, Trev, and all three Eds? Nice! God, it's been forever!!"

"Weren't you supposed to watch over Skylark Manor?" Michiko spoke up. "Is it alright?"

"Ohhh, yeah! I was gettin' antsy, so Mort said he could handle it and told me to follow you in."

"Sounds like Mort," Double D giggled, catching Elwood's attention; or more or less the kid in his arms was.

"Well now, who's this??" Marion giggled and waved as he came up to say hello.

[gantzgun74]

Wally was the one to respond to this, grinning typically. "This is little Marion Elwood-mate. Ain't she just the cutest thing?" He rubbed his palm on her scalp, ruffling up the toddler's hair.

Of course, Otto just looked on, unsure what to make of Elwood... "Why is that guy wearing a skirt?" This question was directed at anyone who could actually answer him; and honestly, he found it a reasonable question since he had never seen a case like Elwood before.

Kosumu seemed to like Elwood already where Otto found him confusing. He couldn't help but giggle. "Heheheh! Funny!"

[Felix Falora]

"Angels wear dresses in Heaven; who am I to question it?" Masahiro replied to Otto.

"He's wearing a skirt because he looks absolutely fabulous in it, duh," Trevor said. "Like Terra. Haven't seen him and Marth around lately. I hope they're ok."

"They are," Masahiro said. "Their writers are just too lazy to put them in anything nowadays, but I guarantee they're making out some-"

"Nice looking place," the crossdresser said, walking in.

"Damnit Michael," Trevor, King, and Masahiro muttered under their breath.