Sunday, 10 July 2016

Dark and Stormy Night 2016 - ScrapLady - danushaj - ScrapLady - Tigerlily2110 - danushaj

Round 1: ScrapLady

It was a dark and Stormy night when the young freshmen left the gym about midnight.  Aaron and Melissa were dates for the college homecoming dance in the old gymnasium.  Actually, the "relationship" if you can even call it that, was more attraction on Melissa's part.  She thought Aaron was very attractive.  He was nice to look at, but besides that he was very kind, generous, smart, and extremely talented.  He always landed a leading role in whatever drama the theater department was doing. And this fall production of 1993 was no exception! Melissa wasn't so theatrically inclined as she was musically inclined!  She was in the college's Concert Choir already.  The choir and the theatre departments were combining efforts on this fall's spectacle.  That's how the two met each other :)

Anyway, although it was raining and the wind was blowing like crazy, the young adults raced to the parking lot and into Aaron's car.   Whew!  it was great to get out of the terrible weather!!  Melissa suggested that they go to CoffeeUnlimited since it was probably still open and warm coffee/latte would sure be good right about now.

R2 danushaj

CoffeeUnlimited was THE place to be seen, the premier karaoke bar in town. It served the best after hours coffee and cake in town.  What better place to be on a night like tonight.

Melissa and Aaron made their way to CoffeeUnlimited.  What a crowd!!  They were lucky to gain entry, it was so busy tonight.  While navigating the busy bar, Aaron had Melissa firmly in hand.  They jostled through the crowd, trying to find a place to sit.  Aaron spied a seat available at the front of the stage.   The chairs were just calling to him to sit there, he tugged Melissa’s hand, lurching her forward uncomfortably.  “HEY!” She yelled. They sat, happy and confident they had secured a seat in such a busy throng.

Little did they know what trouble they had got themselves into by sitting there.  Aaron agreed to get them both a desperately needed latte, the drink Melissa spilt all over Aaron when they first met.

The host for the evening grabbed the microphone and made an announcement “Welcome everyone, it seems we have our first contestants for the evening. Welcome to ………” Just then the microphone was shoved into Aaron’s face.  

Melissa shot Aaron a worried look, “Oh shiiiiiiiiit” she thought.  “Errrr I Ummmm we just came here for a coffee and some entertainment” Aaron spluttered.
“Well mate those chairs are reserved for our contestants, and by sitting there you have entered into an agreement.  A song……….. to the death”.

Gasps were heard all around the room.

"To the death?" Melissa and Aaron both questioned in unison. Guess they were going to have to work together to get themselves out of this spot of bother.

R3 ScrapLady

Mel and Aaron had been "together", a couple, for just about a year now.  They'd met as college freshmen; living in the same dorm on campus.  Aaron's roommate had his eyes on Mel's roomate.  They were complete opposites, but you know the saying..."opposites attract" right?  Well, these two definitely did!  Dan and Shandra were the perfect pair and Aaron and Mel could only hope for such a great relationship too!  Dan would come downstairs to first floor--the girls' floor--all the time to visit Shandra.  And Aaron was usually right along.  He and Melissa got to know each other pretty quickly and soon realized they were in Concert Choir together!  

So, it was sure a good thing tongiht that they were both talented singers.  Hopefully, talented enough to get them to the end of the game without dying out! 


Round 4 Tigerlily2110

The host, who was actually a demon called Balthazar, and a particularly nasty one at that, chuckled inwardly.  'Stupid Humans! so gullible, this is going to be fun'.

Melissa looked at Aaron in growing terror, what were they going to do? were they as talented as they thought, and could they get through this?

On looking around they found the list of karaoke songs.  Melissa decided that she would go first, hoping that Aaron could think, and come up with an idea to get them out of this soon.  The lights dimmed and the music started, Mel was about to open her mouth to sing, when all the lights went out completely and the whole room was in pitch darkness, apart from the red gleam in the demonic eyes.  Outside the storm had stilled and there was an eerie silence.  then, in a blinding flash of light, a tall figure appeared on the stage 'You know who I am Balthazar! and you know you shouldn't be doing this'.

When Mel's eyes adjusted to the light, the tall figure looked to be glowing with a red aura, and she was sure that she could see what looked like horns growing out of the forehead, and was that a forked tail? Why on earth would the Devil be reprimanding a human? and why had she called him Balthazar? Surely he was a demon off a TV programme! What was more odd, was that the Devil, if it was the Devil, was a female.  



Round 5 danushaj

Through the silence Aaron accidentally let out a fart, it was a loud one that echoed around the room.  He sheepishly cowered.  “I ate beans for lunch” he said shyly. 

Melissa glared at him with a disgusted look.  Aaron shrugged and mouthed “what?”.

“ANNNNNNNNNNND CUT!” the director yelled.

The lights switched back on and everyone in the room starts chatting again.  Make up artists come to reapply make up to the devil, yes she was indeed female.  The skin tight body suit hugged all her bones and bumps.  This was easier to see in the light.  Aaron eyed this gorgeous she devil for what seemed like an eternity. 

"OI!" Melissa shouted at him.  Aaron snapped his head around and they both looked at each other in bewilderment, total utter confusion.  A tall skinny man with a headset came over to them.  “Ok guys, I’m going to need you to do this again, we can’t use that footage.”

“Wha, Wha?”  “Hang on Mister, just what the hell is going on.” Melissa cried in exasperation.  “Yeah what is all this?  It looks like we are on a movie set”, Aaron added.

“Yes, yes sorry. Who are you guys??”  the tall skinny guy flipped through notes on his clipboard.  “Are you not Balthazar and Regina???” 

Melissa and Aaron in unison “No!”

The skinny man turns around and chats with someone through his headphones, his voice is angry and strained.  Yelling can be heard through the headset.

“I’m sorry, but you are going to have to leave, NOW!” shouts the tall skinny guy.  He starts pushing Aaron and Mel through the crowd and towards the door.  They were jostled through the throng of people and shoves them out the door onto the footpath.

“What was that about?” Asked Mel.  “How on earth should I know?” shrugged Aaron.  Mel hurried off down the street to find their car and high tail it out of there. 

Aaron stood in the door way of CoffeeUnlimited and muttered under his breath “You almost had me, but not this time you she devil, until we meet again”  His eyes glowed a greenish glow for a brief second as he chuckled then ran to catch up with Mel.

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