This isn't PHO. But I just had to post this.
Skipping over the rotten step, I returned home. Exhausted from another day of bullying by the terrible trombone trio.
But today was going to be different. Because tonight, I was finally going to perform as a musicape.
Some musicapes misused their powers, I wouldn't be a monster like them. I wasn't going to be like Jazz Slash or the Yangband. I was going to become a hero.
I tightly grasped my mothers flute. It was used by her during her time performing under Lustdrum. After the musicape was sent to the Soundbooth, she stopped performing and passed it down to my hands.
After I took a shower and changed into my musicape costume, which I spent months making by playing some tunes to many spiders and insects, I let out a sigh and walked into the night.
Lung was snarling, "…the children, just blow their ears out. Doesn't matter your tone, just blow. You see one lying on the ground? Blast the little bitch twice more to be sure. We give them no chances to cover their ears, understand?"
I could see all of the Asian Boy Band members holding brass instruments.
They were going to deafen
kids?
Not on my watch.
I brought up my flute and began to sing a soft melody, calling upon all the bugs in the area. Countless buzzing sang back at me, more joining the chorus with every second.
Lung and his goons looked around startled. Then one of them yelled out, "Musicape!"
Lung proceeded to smack the back of his head, "Does it not sound like one?! Move! Find them!" He growled, and they quickly scattered around the place.
I switched up the melody, ordering my orchestra to attack them. They echoed my melody in a menacing static. Flying, crawling, and slithering towards each of the band members.
The latter panicked and started blowing their brass at the mass of insects. It was ineffective at stopping the swarm.
Flies and cockroaches crawled into the brass tubes, some of the bandboys dropped their instruments, and ran into the dark. Another portion saw this and followed soon after.
Lung saw this and cursed, "Cowards!" Then one of his remaining goons pointed up at the roof next to them, where I was hiding. I locked eyes with Lung, and shuddered as he suddenly started growing scales and grew larger in size.
Shit.
He started running in my direction, and as I was getting up, leaped up onto the roof. His hands grabbed onto the ledge of the roof.
This is bad.
I pulled out the pepper spray I carried with me, and sprayed it at his face. He roared and closed his eyes in pain. He was still growing larger.
I blew into my flute, trying to get the bugs to bite his hands. But he pulled himself up onto the roof before I could manage to do so.
I watched as he grabbed his tail and pulled it out. I realised that it was shaped like a guitar. He pulled out a scale on his arm and started playing his guitar with it, growling in a deep tone, "I'll kill you!"
I didn't plan to have a musicape battle on my first performance, but it already happened. So I put away my flute and took out my Armsmaster brand mini violin and began playing it violin-tly.
I used my bugs to amplify my voice, "
One day I'll die."
He responded with an intense guitar solo, "Yes you will!"
"
But not by your hand!"
"That's not true!"
"
I won't get to say goodbye."
"Why are you singing still?!"
"
Because I hate your stupid boy band!"
"That's enough!"
Lung roared and gripped his guitar, holding it over his head as he ran towards me.
I shakily played a high pitched note, and my bugs swarmed him, halting him in his tracks. He screamed as they dug into his eyes and crotch. He stepped back and fell off the roof.
I looked down and his goons were gone, leaving him laying on the ground motionless.
"Hey! Thanks for saving our asses."
A voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I turned to look and saw four people in costumes on top of a giant ferocious looking dog.
One of them, a girl in a purple skinsuit with a snail shell symbol on her chest, smiled, "Call me Rattlesnail. This is Grue, Princess Cupcake, and Regent." She introduced the others on the giant dog.
Grue asked, "What's your name?"
I paused, trying to think of a musicape name.
Grue frowned, "If you don't want to share, then-" Rattlesnail interrupted him before he could finish, "She hasn't come up with a name yet."
Rattlesnail hurriedly ended the conversation, "Anyways. Armsmaster is gonna be here in a minute. See you later! Bug girl!" Princess Cupcake grunted, and the giant dog quickly ran off.
Not a minute after they left. The sound of a jingle similar to an ice cream truck approached me. Armsmaster stopped his Armscycle, and got off to assess the situation.
He looked at Lung lying bloodied on the ground, then turned to look at me, "Unknown maestro, did you do this?"
I stuttered, "Um... He was telling his goons to deafen kids. So I um..."
"Wait."
He interrupted me and walked back to his Armscycle, grabbed something from one of the compartments, then returned and gave it to me.
I looked at the Armsicle cone in my hand, then back up to him, "Um... Thanks...? But what about Lung?"
He replied, "Don't worry about him. His vitals are stable. Miss Militia is almost here with MRT agents."
Sure enough, an MRT van arrived a moment after he said so. Miss Militia opened the door and stepped out of the vehicle, MRT agents got out of the back of the van.
They quickly secured the area and brought Lung into the back of the vehicle.
Armsmaster spoke again, "Remember to register with the MRT as a musicape, and enjoy your Armsicle."
He gave me a big smile, before driving off in his Armscycle.
Well that was a crazy night.