Screaming the Wrong Notes (Feedback and Critique Encouraged)

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Altona

Background Music-Let the Flames Begin by Paramore

"This one?" ,Violan asks as I walk up to my house. Its two stories, with red brick and dying grass, so nothing incredibly fancy.

"Yeah, you just gonna stand there or you gonna get in here?"

Violan nods furiously and I swear he turns the color of a tomato, "Yeah, yeah..."

I laugh at him, "There's no need to be embarased about it!

He nods, "Yeah, anyways I have a question for you."

"Yes?"

"Do you remember how to tune a viola?"

I shrug, "Yeah, why wouldn't I?"

He looks very relived, "Alright then, I'll hold you to that in a minute, for now I've got a lot to tell you."

I shrug and lead him towards the kitchen with its seventies decor, "Alright, want a coke or something?"

"No thanks." ,Violan takes a chair as I walk over to the fridge to retrive a red can of soda.

"So what was it you wanted to tell me?" ,I ask, walking over to him.

"You're a Muse. An important one too, the Alto clef." ,he watches me nervously, but for some reason it makes sense, "You're half banshee, which is why your face is how it is. In specifics you're a member of the elite group of muse fighters called Players, who are partnered with those of us who personify instruments. Halfbreeds, which is anyone who's only half muse, are usually sent to the labyrinth on their sixteenth birthday for the purity of muse society. Your an exception because your a clef."

I nod, it seems normal to hear that actually, "Where do you fit into this?"

"I'm your instrument." ,Violan replies simply, "Which reminds me, I'm quite out of tune."

Before my eyes Violan turned into a black and silver viola, bow and all. There's no poof or smoke or anything, just one moment he was Violan then he was a viola. His name is rather ironic now.

I carefully pick him up by the neck and raise him to my shoulder. Cautiously I pick up the bow and drag it across the d string...out of tune is an understatement, the sound is so far from the correct note that I want to cry. I hurridly tune through his strings until each one is as is proper. I set him back down as he was and as soon as I step away he's Violan again.

"Thanks, I really needed that." ,his voice has now taken on the same musical quality as his instrument at whichh I am honestly suprised.

"I think I belive you now."

Violan does a honest to goodness fistpump, "I get to live!"

"You were going to die?"

"Cease to exist, it's different."

I nod skeptically, "Yeah, alright..."

Violan sighs and now when your memories come back we can get back at d*mn*d Trebelia, she's definatly the one behind this."

"Trebelia?"

"The treble clef, who is a singer, Neutralli, the Neutral clef and her cronie is a player and Bassin, is a singer and the bass clef."

"Oddly fitting names." ,I comment.

"Muse names are always accurate."

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Violan

Background Music-Christian's Inferno by Green Day
"Violan, right? That makes you a violin...so why are you alto?" ,asks the pretty blonde six year old muse.
"I'm a Viola." ,I state calmly, "Why is your face all covered up?"
"My father doesn't let me show it."
"Why?"
"Why is your face covered?" ,sh counters.
"I don't like how it looks."
The blonde muse shrugs, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours."
I unwind my bandeges but she isn't suprised, she just removes the cloth on her face.
She's half bannshee.
"What's your name again?"
"Altona."
"I'm glad to know another-"
I'm cut off by a bigger boy, Tubalius, attacking Altona, "Freaks!"
Altona makes a move almost like she's trying to rip out her throat and I freeze. Then I look up to the big golden haired boy and realise, he's not so big after all. One well placed punch and a few pressure points later the teacher is dragging me off for attacking him. Halfbreeds may not be worthy of the teachers help, but we can definately be reprimanded.
After school Altona finds me, "Th-thank you."
She was always so d*mn*d self concious after that.


"So what do we do now?" ,Altona asks.

I smile at my old friend, "We go home and settle our debts...And we send the other Clefs begging for H*ll."

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Altona

Background Music-Frontline by Pillar


I stare at Violan, who has started pacing back and forth, "What is it?"

He shakes his head, "It-It's nothing."

I raise my eyebrow, "I may not know you as well as I should, but something's up."

He bites his tounge, "The council...they would know if you knew you were a muse again...they'll send an attack...I don't know what but they will."

I'm confused, "What are a bunch of music spirits going to throw at me."

As if on que a huge thing breaks through the window followed by two similar things.

Violan grits his teeth, "Vibratos. D*mn. Altona cover your ears the big one's gonna-"

"Scream." ,I finish, putting my hands over my ears as fast as I can, Violan does the same.

In more specifics Vibratos are nasty looking creatures, they've got no eyes and they're an ugly shade of Brown-Grey. They are also lacking ears. Their mouths look like that of a crocodile and they have this big whiplike tail. Their shoulders stick up out of their backs when they walk and their front legs are like human arms up to the wrist when they break into four tentical-like toe things. The back legs are roughly the same save they have five "toes." They are completely bald and stand around five feet tall.

The largest of the three opens it's mouth and you can see the soundwaves go through the air, shattering all the glass I can see. I glance to Violan, who nods...that was a scream and it's enough to turn onne's brain to mush.

Keeping my ear carefully covered I make my way to the drawers as the other vibratos join the chorus.

The waves slam into me hard and I can see Violan shout something...can't hear it though. I fumble through the drawer until I find the steak knives... it feels like I just struck gold. I grab one with my free hand and spin to face the monsters.

I don't think they see me.

I run at the big one and start stabbing furiously, It drops, but now the other ones are onto me. I glance to Violan helplessly and he mouth something...scream.

I'm unsure why he wants me to, but I do it anyway.

The vibrato's head flat out explode, covering both myself and Violan (Who is a few feet away) with blood and chunks of who-knows-what.

Violan takes his hands from his ears and sighs, "They had earholes. Now, lets get out of here before they send something worse."

"They get worse?"

"Those were just the little ones."

What have I gotten myself into?

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Violan

Background Music-One Short Day from Wicked (Wait for them to finish their lines, and please suggest others. I was blank on what to use)

Altona got suprisingly more like herself after the vibratos. I think it was the act of stabbing something, humans tend not to stab things...not that it applies to all of them.

"What's are Muse cities like?" ,Altona asks.

I smile at the question, "The one we lived in is called Glazba, which is Croatian for music. It's got sidewalks that look like silver and the bricks in the houses look like gold. Everything has this jewl tone tint to it, even some of the people... when we moved there to train you dyed your hair the most insane metalic gold." ,I laugh remembering how strange she'd looked, "It's all beautiful."

She nods, pushing some water bottles in a backpack, "It sounds incredible."

"It is."

She finally finishes packing, "So how do we get there?"

"Well, the first thing we have to do is get to Nashville."

Altona is confused, "Why Nashville?"

"The muse city above it Schnur, String in German, is where the labyrinth opens into, we'll have to go through part of the labyrinth to get there though."

Her eyes go wide with shock, "I thought you said I was exempt from the labyrinth!"

"You are, but the only way to the muse world is through the labyrinth."

She stares at me like I asked her to jump off a cliff, "Let's catch a bus then."

And that is how we ended up at the Bus Stop for a greyhound from Middle-Of-Nowhere(Snowball), Arizona to Dallas Texas at the same time as the banshee.

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Altona

The being at the bus stop was so totally enveloped in clothes that you could only decipher they were human by their upright posture... yet something was wrong about them.
I tugged on Violan's sleeve, "There's something up with that person over there."
Violan gave me a confused look, "Altona, there are several people over there, be more specific."
"The Blob."
He gave a curt nod, "That one? It's probably just some little old lady off to visit her grandkids."
"No Violan, there's something really wrong about them."
Violan sighed, "Look, if it makes you feel better I'll go check it out, but I assure you I'll be more or less correct."
I nodded furiously, "Now!"
Violan walked over to "The Blob" and gave a polite half smile, "Hey, would you like some help?"
What I assumed was The Blob's head moved up and Violan stumbled back wards. He shook out his head, "Altona I suggest you look away for a moment."
He started to fumble with his bandages and I obeyed... I caught a faint red light and then I heard Violan yelling, "You can look now!"
Everyone who wasn't me, The Blob or Violan had fallen to the ground, "What the-"
"Silencer thing." ,Violan cut me off, "I'll fill you in later. Now do you have to use my bow as a sword or have you got something useful in that backpack of yours."
I looked for some sighn he was joking, but he was dead serious, "I've got my kitchen knife..."
Violan gave a curt nod, looking incredibly relived, "Good!Now throw it over here you don't want to know whatthis one is."
As if on que The blob shed it's cloths to reveal a humnoid figure wearing literal rags.
More acuratly it was a skin tone humanoid thing with wings for arms and what looked like the bad half of my face rather than a human one... Regardless it was strangly pretty...
Violan cursed and went for my bag, "D*mn banshee!"
He fumbled through for a bit before tearing out my knife and feraly attacking the creature.
"Violan don't!" ,I yelled, he couldn't kill it! That thing needed to live.
Violan fended off the creature's rather impressive assult.
"I don't have time to explain Altona..." ,He narrowly dodged an otherwise crushing blow from the thing's wing, "But this thing has to die."
He grunted as the knife lodged in the creature's stomach.
I gasp, "Violan please, it wasn't going to-"
"Altona, do me a favor and shut up." ,he winced as the humanoid bit into his shoulder, but he pushed the knife further in.
There were several secounds of anticipation and then the humanoid went limp. Violan yanked his hand out, it was covered in blood... Like he'd dunked it in a bucket of the stuff. He gave a heaving breath and looked over to me, "You can talk now. And please, don't cry, it'll make me feel bad."
I broke down crying anyways.
Violan dragged off the body... At some point he washed off his hands. I found myself on a bench, although I don't remember going there. At any rate we didn't talk until we got on the greyhound... At which point I interogated him.

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